Still waiting for mine to turn up.
However when ordering they said they had run out of their own brand and had ordered a rear set from arnott, and I was getting genuine rear arnott, generic front. I'm looking forward to getting them. How do I know if they really are arnott gen 3? Also how do I know if they are gen 3 anyway? Is it just the shape of the cone?
They will have the logo, ans stickers on them. The new airspring i got last friday had a different style sticker on it.
Gen3 was an arnott term, but others have used it also and just refers to the shape of the piston.
One thing to keep in mind if purchasing "no-name" Gen III's is the bag length. As Benji says, they call them Gen III's based on piston shape, but are the bags themselves the same length fully extended??
Just re-igniting this one. I'm not sure when Rob fitted the generic/non-arnott Gen III's to his (now my) P38, but I do have some pics you may be interested in...
After a few years (maybe 2 or 3) of being on the P38, the crimp rings on the no-name Gen III's are corroded quite bad. I had the Rangie on a hoist yesterday as a part of roadworthy and it's not isolated to one spring.
If I wasn't using my phone right now I'd put the pics up.
The Arnott Gen III's on the blue Rangie are nearly 5yrs old and there is no corrosion whatsoever (and we all know the places my P38 has been).
Will jump on the laptop and upload them when I get a sec.
It wasn't anything holding up the roadworthy. EDIT: My mechanic picked up the corrosion and showed me when I went in yesterday to pick it up.
As a P38 it passed with flying colours! The LPG side of things let me down big time. No heat shielding on gas feed lines in close proximity to the exhaust, and an LPG line that was being rubbed by the panhard rod in the rear. I rectified both today and it'll be getting its roadworthy tomorrow.
It took me most of today to sort the LPG issues. Oh, it needed a new drag link as well (which I happened to have sitting in the garage!).
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