Re: Help me suspension gurus!

[Jim Buck <vwpride@mixi.net>]

Iain Mannix wrote:
> 
> At 10:13 PM -0500 9/18/97, Jim Buck wrote:
> >Iain Mannix wrote:
> > although if one blows up, you have to either buy another, send
> >> them the dead one, and if they determine the shock is at fault, they'll
> >> credit you(never been told the shock was not at fault by Bilstein, they
> >> were always great), OR, send them the dead one, wait for a replacement.
> >> This option sorta sucks.  I've been sorta planning on getting a spare shock
> >> or two just in case.  Maybe one front, one rear, dunno.  Maybe buy some
> >> dead cores, get them revalved, then have spares - lifetime warranties are
> >> great but time consuming.  Tell us the class/spring you're racing with,
> >> that could give me a better idea of what you are doing and need!
> >
> >Iain, as a sidebar, I just got my replacement Konis sent to me, free of
> >charge.  All I had to do was fax a copy of my car's registration, and a
> >copy of the original sales receipt, and they sent 'em right out!  Now
> >all I have to do is send the roached ones in...I don't think I'll have a
> >problem...my car bounces like the "before" on a Midas commercial.
> >
> >Jim
> 
> Cool!  I did not know that.  Things have changed since I last talked to
> them - this was the deal with Bilstein, and when I bought Konis, I called
> them to get the lowdown on how they did their warranties.  That was about a
> year ago, maybe 9 months.  Maybe they realized the other system sorta
> sucked.  Thanks for the note, though!  This will help me out if I ever need
> it....
> 
> Mannix(hope not)

Hey, saw the rabbit in Grassroots tonite...cool!  That's my Old Fartz
buddy Warren LeVeque in that orange Yenko Stinger in there too!  Fort
Wayne Region SCCA...buy the way, did you go to nats this year?  Steve
Miertz is my neighbor...did he win CSP?  He really loves VWs.

Jim
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