Thread: Rear Air springs

I haven't heard of anyone doing the rears yet, even on very high KM examples. I'm sure someone must have done some by now, but not heard of it myself.

Hi Harlie
I replaced both my front after the right one burst. To many pies I think.
But I then had to replace on nboth sides the arb links, upper arm ball joint and rubber bush as the damn things all of a sudden started knocking. And of course they only did it after I replaced each component so it was multiple postage costs. I also fitted a new servotronic valve as the steering started playing up.

Adrian

Originally Posted by harlie

Hi Guys

The nice courier man dropped off a new set of air bags last week, I thought with all the talk of air spring leaks I would replace mine (2004) as a scheduled exercise and not wait for them to let me and the car down...

On Friday night I replaced the front strut/bag assemblies, all good nice and easy but I did need to pick up a 18mm open spanner (read somewhere listing tools required) and would have been interesting without it. Only other thing was that a depressurise via diagnostic equipment doesn’t fully depressurise, need to bleed remaining once you loosen the hose connection – may as well just bleed the lot from the connection.

Must admit it feels better with new front shock/struts.

Did a search on info (mainly tools required) for changing the rears and there’s no talk about it. Is no one replacing rears yet?

almost the same as a p38, there is a top clip, pull it out, then a bolt up from the bottom through the lower control arm. depressurise first though when the bag is pulled down you can access the actual air fitting and remove it.


jc

Thanks lads, looking at the new ones it looks easy, I'm waiting on new shocks to arrive, do it all together. The new struts on the front made a big difference to handling - anyone who thinks their struts are good after 200k is dreaming. Before I changed them we did the old jump on the bumper shock test and they felt fine, I was convinced we wouldn't notice any difference, but wow - now I notice the difference in the rear.

@ 170k, had no leaks but I'm glad I've changed them.