Strut failure rebuild

Dec 12, 2019 | 02:44 AM

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Strut failure rebuild

Has anyone sent out there front air struts to get rebuilt. I found a site rebuild master tech that will rebuild your struts for 325. Any suggestions I want to be able to keep the adjustment settings.

Dec 12, 2019 | 06:54 AM

dblock110

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just buy arnott's replacements imo.

Dec 12, 2019 | 08:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Jbhoopse55

Has anyone sent out there front air struts to get rebuilt. I found a site rebuild master tech that will rebuild your struts for 325. Any suggestions I want to be able to keep the adjustment settings.

I got rebuilt struts here in good old Africa, so far they been good to me.. Nearly half the price of factory new ones. Worth it.

Dec 12, 2019 | 10:59 AM

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i'd recommend arnotts from FCP euro for the lifetime warranty

Dec 12, 2019 | 11:52 AM

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Can you still use the sport 1 and sport 2 and comfort functions

Dec 12, 2019 | 01:11 PM

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Arnott says that both the new and reman versions retain ADS. When I need to, I am going to get the remans, just because it saves a couple hundred bucks and they both have lifetime warranties

Dec 12, 2019 | 01:47 PM

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Arnott says that both the new and reman versions retain ADS. When I need to, I am going to get the remans, just because it saves a couple hundred bucks and they both have lifetime warranties

The rear ones aren't equipped with an extra reservoir so it's actually impossible they maintan all of the functions of SAS/ADS suspension in E55, Don't know about the front ones.
Also AFAIK Arnott doesn't reman the shock absorber, so going for rebuilt ones (stayng with SAS/ADS) you never know what you'll get.

Anyway if I'd live in US I'd also go with Arnotts. Here in Europe (Poland) it's a different story (Africa probably too). Arnotts are expensive here (ca 740$) and there's no lifetime warranty. On the other side we have a lot of shops specialized in refurbishing air struts for years.

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Dec 12, 2019 | 04:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Jbhoopse55

Has anyone sent out there front air struts to get rebuilt. I found a site rebuild master tech that will rebuild your struts for 325. Any suggestions I want to be able to keep the adjustment settings.

I plan on going with Rebuilt Master Tech,(RMT), when I change out my Struts, and rear air springs. I spent some time on the phone with their engineer. He had a German accent, so what else do you need to know :-). The rear air springs(bags), use the factory reservoir so the comfort mode still works as it should. Also the strut bladders, and shock fluid are replaced when they are rebuilt, so the SAS dampening is retained. The downside is you are reusing old valves, and hardware. My 2004 E55 has the original suspension at 133K miles. The left rear sags down in a week of sitting, unless I park it in raised mode. In raised mode it doesn't leak down. The fronts are fine, but I'm just paranoid that I might have failure somewhere far from home. Do you usually get a warning when the fronts are going away?

Dec 12, 2019 | 06:18 PM

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No warning for me luckily I was only 100 feet from home when the shock blew. I just ordered shock from Fcp euro lifetime warranty

Dec 13, 2019 | 07:44 AM

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my left front failed and a local shop wanted around 500 for one arnott and then 200 for install . .

they also suggested doing both the fronts at the same time so i was looking at over $1000 bill....

at $600+ per wheel i decided to remove the entire air suspension and install arnott's coilover conversion kit instead. it is apparently the only coilover kit that doesnt need special control arms if i did my research correctly.

https://www.arnottindustries.com/c-2...tic-excl-wagon

it cost me about $1700 total but i just kept thinking at 700/corner i would spend 2800 over time replacing them because i plan to keep the car for a long long time.

i cant raise and lower the car anymore but playing with that button always felt like playing with a grenade to me.

arnott picked a great ride height it seems somewhere inbetween old levels 1 and 2

the car drives way better than it ever did on air! way better! taking turns at speed is now...possible!

and i will now never be trapped/stuck/ever have to worry about this air suspension ever again haha

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