Anyone want some used spheres?
- morningglory
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Anyone want some used spheres?
Just changed all my spheres and don't really know what to do with the old ones. Anyone interested?
Postage will be about £25 then how much are they worth on top of that?!
They're a bit flat but not bad (4 years/20k miles). Not got a pressure tester but thought someone might have recharging equipment. Can't see what else to do with them except bin them or weigh them in (huge, garage door knobs? weird robot boobs?). Got the accumulator as well but I'm pretty sure that's kaput.
Ta,
Joe
Postage will be about £25 then how much are they worth on top of that?!
They're a bit flat but not bad (4 years/20k miles). Not got a pressure tester but thought someone might have recharging equipment. Can't see what else to do with them except bin them or weigh them in (huge, garage door knobs? weird robot boobs?). Got the accumulator as well but I'm pretty sure that's kaput.
Ta,
Joe
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Re: Anyone want some used spheres?
Sorry mate but I think they're fit for the recycling. New spheres aren't that much really.
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Re: Anyone want some used spheres?
Agreed with Tim, I have untold dead spheres in my garage not much use to anyone really, cheap enough to replace and bin the old ones, sometimes even cheaper to buy new than have the old ones re-gassed.
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Re: Anyone want some used spheres?
Balls. Time for some creative recycling. Ta for letting me know anyway.
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Re: Anyone want some used spheres?
No worries, personally I only ever fit new spheres from the sphere shop, £120 for all 5?delivered isn't bad value and they're top quality.
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Re: Anyone want some used spheres?
i'm a noob, someone help, what are the spheres for? :'( (i wanna learn all this stuff)
- jamescarruthers
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Re: Anyone want some used spheres?
They provide damping in your suspension.
In theory your 1.4 has slightly different sized spheres at the front to most other BXs, but dont worry, it doesn't make a huge difference.
If your ride is hard, then you need new spheres. They can sometimes be recharged.
In theory your 1.4 has slightly different sized spheres at the front to most other BXs, but dont worry, it doesn't make a huge difference.
If your ride is hard, then you need new spheres. They can sometimes be recharged.
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2006 Citroen C6 Exclusive 3.0 petrol/LPG
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Re: Anyone want some used spheres?
For original spheres there's a constant need at me The aftermarket are not always the thing, like for Xantia they don't have all spheres available anymore, just a couple of variants that fit all models. So always searching after those "long" BX estate spheres here, they work wonderfull in a Xantia (and Xantia HA2 spheres in a C5)! My neighbour has also recharging equipment so I can adjust the ride by overgassing the spheres 10-25% over the factory setting.
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Re: Anyone want some used spheres?
hey James! tbh my ride's great, well for all 100m that i drove it for to land it at the bottom of my mates drive, and the adjustableness is all good too!
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Re: Anyone want some used spheres?
Yo Tim. I have checked out the sphereshop for 4 spheres and the price to me here in France today is 120EUR plus delivery ( 15 to France 19 to GB). Can you check and verify the GBP price you have quoted.
I need to order some for my GTi in the spring and from what you have said it would be better to order in the UK.
Bonne annee
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Re: Anyone want some used spheres?
120 eur is 106 gbp at current exchange rate, i could well believe that at the time of buying that was about the price