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Andy H Omega Knight Offline Posts: 1833 Cornwall Gender: Drives: 03 2.6 Elite Auto	Re: Part no. ID for Air Shocks please anyone ? Reply #15 - 27. Mar 2011 at 21:35 What markings do you have on the springs? 'LA' perhaps?
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Essex Big Al Senior Member Offline Posts: 727 Southend Essex Gender: Drives: '00 3.0 Elite saloon ( although it says MV6 on the V5) ! !	Re: Part no. ID for Air Shocks please anyone ? Reply #16 - 27. Mar 2011 at 21:41 LA on one O/s - nothing at all on n/s . had a real good look Front springs are paint marked Orange /grey on top coil & orange on coil below that. Any clues in that?
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Andy H Omega Knight Offline Posts: 1833 Cornwall Gender: Drives: 03 2.6 Elite Auto	Re: Part no. ID for Air Shocks please anyone ? Reply #17 - 27. Mar 2011 at 21:56 Mine has LA on the rear (both sides) and IIRC so does chrisgixer. I haven't measured the rear ride height but does look a bit high
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Andy H Omega Knight Offline Posts: 1833 Cornwall Gender: Drives: 03 2.6 Elite Auto	Re: Part no. ID for Air Shocks please anyone ? Reply #18 - 27. Mar 2011 at 22:05 Another thought. The rear semi trailing arms tend to wind up (or down?) due the torque reaction from the parking brake, possible aided by an auto box in park. Did you have the hand brake off and the gearbox in neutral when you did your bounce test?
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Essex Big Al Senior Member Offline Posts: 727 Southend Essex Gender: Drives: '00 3.0 Elite saloon ( although it says MV6 on the V5) ! !	Re: Part no. ID for Air Shocks please anyone ? Reply #19 - 28. Mar 2011 at 07:49 Ah! Hand brake was off - but car was IN park. Am getting ground to wheelarch measurements from an MV6 today so at least we will know the difference between the two models . will post results on here tonight,
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Re: Part no. ID for Air Shocks please anyone ?
Reply #20 - 28. Mar 2011 at 21:01

Entwood wrote on 27. Mar 2011 at 17:24:

Intriguing !!!

Don't know if this helps or hinders ... 2001 3.2 Elite Saloon. New rear shockers 7000 miles ago. Engine running, self levelling pump "finished" its business ...

Measured at the wheel arch vertically through the centre of the wheel.

F N/S = 675 mm
F O/S = 665 mm
R N/S = 675 mm
R O/S = 685 mm

Now those figures look very like your original figures ...... so what makes you think it's sitting "high" ??

Wink

Reply to Entwood: Re measured my ground to wheelarch sizes again today just to make sure. from ground vertically through centre of wheel as follows

N/s front 660mm

O/s front 660mm

N/s rear 690mm

O/s rear 690mm

just waiting for MV6 all round sizes to be confirmed by Oof member

Will post up when I have them Thumbs Up!

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Re: Part no. ID for Air Shocks please anyone ?
Reply #21 - 30. Mar 2011 at 17:47

Essex Big Al wrote on 28. Mar 2011 at 21:01:

Entwood wrote on 27. Mar 2011 at 17:24:

Intriguing !!!

Don't know if this helps or hinders ... 2001 3.2 Elite Saloon. New rear shockers 7000 miles ago. Engine running, self levelling pump "finished" its business ...

Measured at the wheel arch vertically through the centre of the wheel.

F N/S = 675 mm
F O/S = 665 mm
R N/S = 675 mm
R O/S = 685 mm

Now those figures look very like your original figures ...... so what makes you think it's sitting "high" ??

Wink

Reply to Entwood: Re measured my ground to wheelarch sizes again today just to make sure. from ground vertically through centre of wheel as follows

N/s front 660mm

O/s front 660mm

N/s rear 690mm

O/s rear 690mm

just waiting for MV6 all round sizes to be confirmed by Oof member

Will post up when I have them Thumbs Up!

Right then results of the MV6 measure up ! Cool

Ground to Wheelarch vertically through wheel center on his own MV6 has been confirmed by Darth-Loo-Knee as: 670mm all round

My car just looks wrong the rear height being 690mm in comparison to the front (660mm) .

It does not sound like much but it looks quite "ugly" to me.

Gonna try & get a set of rear MV6 springs & try them.

Thanks all for putting up with this long drawn out issue & all of your good input in the replies.

But I think we may have the answer now . . . . .
Wrong rear springs Roll Eyes

Thanks All Big Al :

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amba Omega Baron Offline Posts: 2151 Medway towns Gender: Drives: 1998 2.5 Elite Auto saloon.Fitted with 3.0 cams and Irmscher Alloys.	Re: Part no. ID for Air Shocks please anyone ? Reply #22 - 30. Mar 2011 at 17:52 Well done that man for sticking with it and hopefully getting the answer to the problem. Will await follow up of this thread, once the correct springs are fitted. Sure the car will then sit level.
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