Listers,
I'll jump in here. Just this summer I returned a shock twice to Apple,
once for poor action, second for leaking after a month of driving. This is
not a job you want to do twice in two years little loan one summer. I
will definitely try another source next shock job.
Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: Barney Gaylord <barneymg@ntsource.com>
To: Edward Woods <fogbro1@home.com>; Rick Brown <brown409@home.com>
Cc: <mgs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2000 4:27 PM
Subject: Re: Shock help
> At 03:14 PM 12/10/2000 -0500, Edward Woods wrote:
> >O.K., I'll bite. Why isn't Apple recommended? A personal bad experience?
> If so, what. If not, then it's heresay, right? Be specific.
>
> Okay, here's specific. I went through NINE Apple Hydraulics rebuilt front
> shocks on my MGA in two years before the warrantee ran out. Apple was
> covering all shipping charges (most of the time), but it was still a major
> inconvenience continuously changing out the parts, and cleaning up the oil
> mess, and driving the car on leaky shocks most of the time when I really
> wanted to autocrossing or would rather be working on something else. Two
> of the units were returned before installation, one with a seal obviously
> hanging out the side of the unit, and the other with absolutely no damping
> force right out of the box. The other seven units all leaked out the oil
> within a few thousand miles of installation, some of them within the first
> week of use, after which none of them would hold oil for a week. The real
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