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Car Forum / Honda Cars / October 2005Who recharges lift suports?
Hello, all, I just bought a very used 91 Civic station wagon. Among other adventures, the lifters for the rear door (trunk?) are just about non-functional. This car already needs about a thousand and a half's worth of work, so the $50 - $100 for replacement lift supports would be sorely missed. Cheapest solutions looks to be a clamp, but I'd really like to get the things recharged. Anyone know what kind of place would recharge gas lift supporters? I'm still a newcomer in an area too affluent for anyone I know to have these kinds of problems and I can't drive around the nearest bigger town looking until basic work on the car gets down. Thanks - K. > Hello, all, > [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > K. why are you spending $1500 on it already? what's wrong with it? and no, you can't replace the struts - you have to replace. just use a broom handle cut to the right length and keep it in the trunk if you don't want to spend the money just yet. > and no, you can't replace the struts oops, make that "recharge". the struts can't be recharged. > Hello, all, > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > K. ------------------------------ Sounds like your mechanic has binoculars . . . And saw you coming. Make a note of this important warning: YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO TO A HONDA DEALER TO GET YOUR HONDA FIXED, OR FOR PARTS. NAPA sells the struts half price. Lots of independent garages exist. They're often just as good and very often more careful to keep you as a customer. 'Curly' Good advice - it'll just take time to find a mechanic here I know I can trust, but that's part of car ownership. K. >> Hello, all, >> [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > > 'Curly' > Good advice - it'll just take time to find a mechanic here I know I can > trust, but that's part of car ownership. I gather "here" is UNC? Maybe someone can recommend a mechanic... --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0543-2, 10/27/2005 Tested on: 10/30/2005 7:24:46 AM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2005 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com >>Hello, all, >> [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > exist. They're often just as good and very often more careful to keep > you as a customer. For that matter, I got new struts for my Accord hatch from the local Princess Auto's surplus section. $15 each. They're about 4 inches longer than the stock ones, so the hatch opens to almost vertical now, but that just makes loading tools into the car a lot easier :) --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0543-2, 10/27/2005 Tested on: 10/30/2005 7:23:37 AM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2005 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com > For that matter, I got new struts for my Accord hatch from the local > Princess Auto's surplus section. $15 each. Which begs the question, what is the "surplus section" and where the heck is Sasckatoon! (yeah, I know, Canada, but who lives in Canada?) nb >>For that matter, I got new struts for my Accord hatch from the local >>Princess Auto's surplus section. $15 each. > > Which begs the question, what is the "surplus section" and where the > heck is Sasckatoon! (yeah, I know, Canada, but who lives in Canada?) Uh, I do, eh? Vancouver area, actually - we're a long way from the flatlands. The point is, there are WAY cheaper sources of hatch struts out there. And BTW, they don't need to be "Honda-brand": I had to fudge the attachments a little bit to make the "generic" struts work on my Accord, as Honda uses non-generic bolt-ons, but they do work. --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0543-2, 10/27/2005 Tested on: 10/30/2005 9:26:55 AM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2005 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com H'mmm - once again I'm getting only about 1/3 of the messages on my news server. >>> For that matter, I got new struts for my Accord hatch from the local >>> Princess Auto's surplus section. $15 each. New struts for $15 would be wonderful, esp. since it's (as Dave Broadfoot would say) in Canadian dollars! The cheapest I've been able to find on the Internet is $25 each - I have to assume the parts stores here in NC would charge the same. Don't know the area well enough yet to start cruising the junk yards; that a bit of bargain-hunting fun I'm looking forward to. > Uh, I do, eh? Vancouver area, actually - we're a long way from the > flatlands. One of the most beautiful cities I've ever seen - cheap struts was all it needed to make it perfect :) K. |
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