A few people have been asking me what's going on with this so I thought I'd update everyone
I was sick to death of this on-going EDC drama so a couple of months ago I started to seriously research a solution. After much searching I found a specialist suspension company who had the ability, but more to the point had the will to help us. These guys have many many years of experience with all manner of road and race suspension, they specialise in rebuilding old Ferrari and Lamborghini shocks amongst other things, and the boss is a good guy which is so important in these situations
Bottom line is that he's willing to help us. He currently has 2 front and 2 rear units in pieces and he's sourcing all of the necessary seals and gas sacs. They have the ability to manufacture their own seals if necessary so he's not anticipating any problems. There's nothing complex in the units and he's quite confident he can turn these around for us. Rebuild units would come totally refurbed, repainted and would be tested on their suspension dyno before being released. This is not just a hydraulics company, this is a bona fide suspension specialist who has all of these facilities in house, blast cabinets, dyno etc etc
The plan is the same as it always was, he'll hold a set of refurbed units in stock, people will buy them from him and pay a deposit which they will get back when they return their own units which will be refurbed for the next person
Target price is £100 per rear leg and £150 per front leg inc. VAT
I should be able to update you again next week. We will need to get him all of the blown units we have as there will be occasions where a solenoid or hardened shaft is too damaged to re-use so he has to salvage parts from another leg. Having said that, they can source the solenoids direct and manufacture their own rods if necessary but it would put the price up dramatically so while there are so many blown units available they might as well be recycled
No luck sourcing the shockers yet, I have however has a reply from Sportsline that fits this thread perfectly. Were there recon shocks actually any good is the next question?
Richard
Yes we still refurb EDC units. I'm afraid we no longer offer an exchange service.
The cost of refurbishing the units is £250 a unit plus VAT, this includes new spring insulators, bump rubbers and dustcovers. If there is a heavy damaged/corroded or bent rod a new rod costs £70 plus VAT each. It would take us a minimum of 2 weeks to complete the refurb.
Best Regards
Graham
Sportsline Suspension Ltd
Sigma House
Unit C
Tingewick Road Industrial Park
Buckingham
MK18 1ED
Just a fairly quick but confusing update. Managed to source some good 2nd hand dampers from the usual place, rears complete with springs etc.
I managed to fit the rear dampers on Saturday without much trouble except that one of the bolts on the bottom of the damper was seized in the bush. BMW parts had closed and I therefore had to save the bolt so we carefully removed the bush (along with the seized bolt) using brute force and ignorance (we have plenty of that up north) and then I used a drill to remove the rubber and an angle grinder on the bush to remove the bolt in one piece (without damaging the old damper). What a pain!
The best way to bleed the SLS was to get two fairly heavy people to bounce up and down whilst sat on the tailgate and get a third (weight not important) to top up the reservoir. Turning the steering wheel was also but less useful, all this with the engine running of course. The reservoir will need to be monitored/topped up for a couple of days whilst the system continues to self bleed.
Sunday should have been a day of rest, but the front dampers needed replacing and so with a quick stop at Screw fix to pick up a cheap spring compressor (£15) the leaking front was removed quite easily. The spring compressor worked a treat and the whole thing looked over until I had to remove the threaded ring on the top. I had also failed to buy a replacement ring as is recommended, so that torture began. Massive Stillsons, bar extensions, blow torch, cold chisel and bad backs later, still no dice. I remembered that I had a damper that was bent at the bottom (another story) in the shed. I managed to remove the spare threaded ring with less hassle and then cut the other one off (angle grinder to the rescue).
Another point to mention here was that the replacement damper had a larger rod diameter as the one taken off (the one on my car was a replacement for the bent one 18 months ago). Using more of the spare damper assembly I managed to put it all back together and the car handles great.
I am going to replace the other damper next weekend but I will order the threaded ring and other parts before I do, this would have saved me about 2-3 hours on both days.
Sorry for any confusion but I am now knackered, fingers crossed for the MOT. I can photograph the other side being done if anyone is interested in doing the job themselves, it goes to show that not many of these jobs go to plan (especially if you are a cack-handed northerner)
I'd like to buy a pair of (complete, used non functioning but restorable) rear EDC for the 95 3.8 Touring to send to sportsline if possible. Do they rebuild the proportioning valve also? I have recently rebuilt my SLS (new accumulators and pipes) but now have the Suspension Leveling error message, and I'm told it's the proportioning valve. It's my belief that the rear will go once the valve is replaced, and I'd like to have some ready at the go. It doesn't make sense for me to go to a pick and pull here (what would I get anyway 750iL EDC) and then ship them over.
Speak to the shop keeper above, he fixed me up.
I have ordered the threaded ring and bolts for the last one, just need nice weather now, oh and some time!
Digging up the old thread.
Anybody know a place rebuilding E30 M3 EDC shocks? I get the warning light when switching through different modes and the modes arent't distinguishable.
I was wondering what actually happend to the EDC dampers that was sent to Sportsline by the guy from Taiwan? The thread suddently went cold or what :eek7: ??
Well to my second question here: does anyone know where to get E39 EDC dampers repaired? I have found absolutely nothing when I´ve searced!
I am the man send EDC to Sportsline for repair from Taiwan, after again and again call by telephone, finally I got the repaired EDC from sportsline, but one front spindle see damaged(some scratch/hollow
on spindle surface, he say by shipping, but I think that the spindle was rebuilt from old edc one and install to my EDC, he said want to resend one to me, but after many time to call, no new one received! And I give up!).
And I still not install them all!
If want to know suggest to rebuilt by them or not, my answer is NOT!
I have a friend of mine who us a retired Swiss helicopter engineer living in Jakarta , he now runs a precision plating and machining business including hydraulic rams for the oil and gas industries.
He loves to tinker with new projects especially if it's tricky , meeting him next week when he gets back from an overseas project , whatever happens (project abort, failure or success) I'll put a post up
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