caverD3
Member Since: 03 Jul 2006
Location: Oberon, NSW
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Look forward to details in Technicolor. 
Enjoy your hols Pantelis.
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D4 3.0 Active Diff, Adaptive Lights, High Beam Assist, Surround Cameras, Privacy Glass.
D3 2.7:Adaptive Headlights,Electronic Rear Diff,ARB Bar,Blaupunkt Speakers,JVC Powered Subwoofer,Removable Snorkel,Mitch Hitch,Pioneer After Market Head Unit,Steering Wheel Control Adaptor,Remote Adjustable Supension Rod System, Taxside Dual Battery System.
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GraemeS
Member Since: 17 Mar 2008
Location: NSW
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Bodsy wrote:Interesting Graeme.
Just firmer because they're new or some other update to the shock absorber?
They have significantly greater bump and rebound stiffness, which probably would be quite good when fully loaded especially on outback roads but our vehicle is almost always empty. Of particular note was what I considered excessive rebound damping for normal b-grade roads where the rear-end was uncomfortably snatched down after a bump. They weren't a problem on roughish unsealed roads at speed because they were continuously working hard. I removed them at 35K kms because weren't showing any signs of softening and fitted new MY09 shocks instead. I had already fitted D3 sway bars which significantly decreased the side-to-side tossing by lessening the extent that the body followed the front wheels into depressions and over bumps.
I had read somewhere that even the D3 used different shocks on later models but don't know in what respect. Home of LLAMS, for LRs and Jeep GCs
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| 29th Aug 2011 9:58 am |
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pantg
Member Since: 14 Nov 2005
Location: 862, Paralia Markopoulou Oropou, 190 15 Oropos, GREECE
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People Hi,
first of all a request for your apologies for the late reply and the delay in providing you all with an update.
It has been quite a bumpy ride here in Greece, as most of you may already know from the news.
Inside all this turmoil I have contacted the person who designed and was manufacturing the "greek made" heavy duty shock absorbers a few times and also spoke with him on the phone.
During all those communications I was unable to retract from him a positive reply on whether he could supply further quantities of those shock absorbers.
And finally, when I have contacted him again over the phone, he told me that he is not interested in producing them anymore mainly because he has calculated that it made no economical/financial sense to continue offering them with the kind of after sales support and product quality specifications that he wanted to offer with his products.
So I believe that it is no longer possible to have the "greek made" shock absorbers.
If something changes and he decides to reintroduce them I will let you know.
Take care everybody.
Pantelis Pantelis Giamarellos
LAND ROVER CLUB OF GREECE
tel +30 22950 37637
fax +30 22950 31818
mobile +30 6944 579911
e-mail [email protected]
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