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Strut Design Problems

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Hi,

Having real issues getting a company to send the right replacement struts for my van. SGS are insistent that they semt the right ones (they don't fit) and some others off Fleabay have the wrongs ends, plus are too short! Both sets are being sent back (SGS are dragging their feet a bit but they did say that they would fit!)

I''ve attached a couple of pictures - the shiny new ones sent by SGS (don't fit) - and the older ones (that have come off) that do, but gas is weak in them.

Are these Standard
Are these Standard
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Can you advise?

Thanks!

Tony
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Did you not think to ask SGS to re-gas your originals?
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R0B wrote:Did you not think to ask SGS to re-gas your originals?

No... :rollin

Didn't occur to me only had the van a week so still learning!
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I also had a right faff when replacing my poptop struts using SGS. Got there in the end, but I had different ends exchanged twice. Unless the struts are re fillable by design, they can't be refilled..
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According to this they can re-gas virtually any strut..https://www.sgs-engineering.com/gas-str ... ng-service" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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R0B wrote:According to this they can re-gas virtually any strut..https://www.sgs-engineering.com/gas-str ... ng-service" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I guess....I hate4 saying this but I am wary now. I did go through it all on the phone and estblished they were going to send the correct ones....

Don't have time to do anything but fit them really. Didn't want to be running round, re-taking measurements, measuring eylets..etc etc....

....I just wanted them to send the correct ones.

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Have a look at the thread below, hope it helps. I will try to PM you some pictures that are missing from the thread.

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http://forum.club8090.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=151133" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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I failed on the PM pictures so the following info is on the side of the SGS struts
GS10-22-200-250 on both struts , one strut is a 450 newton, and one is a 300 newton. The same front and back.
Both struts have to be compressed approx 10mm to get onto the mounts

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just watching this post out of curiosity and it is a pain in the a*** with photo bucket as nothing to see, there must be thousands of posts that are not worth looking at the way things are at the moment
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The lack of photos has been compounded by the fact I couldn't PM a message with attached photos when I tried, l got a message to say a .jpg file format was not allowed.
So I will email the OP the pictures, not helping any one else who looks for the info via the pictures in the thread.
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