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Old 08-04-2006, 07:13 AM
hotrod hotrod is offline
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Not really familiar with your car, but if it has a conventional shock absorber you may be able to find a direct replacement intended for another car.

To do that, you need to find out the fully extended length of your stock shock, its fully compressed length, piston size and your car weight.

Here in America, you can go into an auto parts house and look through the back of a shock absorber catalog where they list the actual specs of the shocks. There is a very good chance your shock also was used on another car model that came out about the same time.

Also here in the U.S. there is a company that publishes a book called the "Hollander manual" used by wrecking yards (car breakers) to determine what components from other car models are interchangable to other brands / years. You might check to see if a similar book is available to salvage yards in your country.

Larry
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