Thread: Rancho shocks

Originally Posted by justinc

Hey Inc!!!

How on earth did the word RANCHO get past the anti swearing filter???




Best add that one to the list of banned words here on this forum!




Hi Wannalandy,
I am unashamadly anti rancho for LR's.
Bilstein, DeCarbon, Koni, even OME are in a different universe to these overrated under achievers of shock absorbers! I have a filing cabinet outside my workshop for these. It's big and blue and it has COLLEX and a Hippo painted on the side of it.

Is that a strong enough opinion for you?

JC

JC, you have failed to mention the fun n games I had with a well advertised supplier with an alphanumeric name.

Originally Posted by rick130

Rancho aren't Aussie, (designed and built in the US) only the importer is Australian.

Hmmm, how can I put this delicately. Rancho are a triumph of marketing over substance. There are much better options available.

Rick, there wouldn't be to many times i could correct you but the Rancho Ru__ish isn't made in the US as such. Its made in Mexico. Interestingly enough somewhere I have an e-mail from a Rancho engineer in the US advising that they DO NOT make a shock absorber for Defenders after 1996.

Originally Posted by Stevo_62

Rick, there wouldn't be to many times i could correct you but the Rancho Ru__ish isn't made in the US as such. Its made in Mexico. Interestingly enough somewhere I have an e-mail from a Rancho engineer in the US advising that they DO NOT make a shock absorber for Defenders after 1996.

The only reason hey don't list a Defender after '96 is that they weren't available there after that.
The big problem, as you've alluded to, is the importer.
The sad thing is that I dealt with them for years and years when trading under another name for my Jeep parts and they were fantastic (the father ran that business )

A long time ago when trying to get some long travel rear shocks that would bolt up to the existing mounts the best I could come up with at one stage was their TLC80 Series which 'the son' assured me would work inverted, but was cagey enough to stipulate "they aren't designed for that model, so there are no guarantees"
When they turned up I wasn't too taken with the build quality (mainly the eyes) and I was also advised "don't use our urethane bushes, you'll snap the eyes off"
Guess what, they don't work inverted I only found out afterwards that their "foam gas cell" is nothing more than some closed cell foam jammed into the outer cylinder.
Oh, and I couldn't return them, even though they'd only been used for a couple of hundred km as I'd used them in a 'non standard' situation.

Rancho
a poorly performing shock.

they sort of work on a h/way.

they sort of work on slow 4x4 crawl but fade very fast.

they last about 5 min in any servere usage.

they cannot stand fastdrive over iregular surface.

they are not valved to suit any particular vehicle.

expensive for what they are greatest marketing campaign around.

Buy bils or konies from US.

Michael.