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Hi all,
Need a bit of advice that I could not find on the net and judging by the quality of the threads IÂ’ve read before I signed up IÂ’m pretty sure one or two of you super helpful folk can help me?
IÂ’ve got a 2009 2.0Cdti auto with the 163 output.
I had a broken rear coil spring and decided to replace the rear shocks too. The car had 80k on it when I bought it with no service history. IÂ’ve done 20k in the past 11 months. However I had to replace the shocks and the upper cushion mounts as the tops of the shock spindles were completely wrecked and seized.
Anyway having thought I was a fairly competent home home mechanic I hadnÂ’t torqued up the bottom shock mount (21mm) and embarrassingly the bolt shook loose and is on the M1 somewhere whilst on our current festive holiday trip to the Highlands and and I got as far as Kwik Fit in Newcastle to discover this (I live in Essex!) fortunately a very friendly Vauxhall dealer in Newcastle (DavidsonÂ’s) found a bolt with same thread (and nut) and sent us on our way. I still need to get the correct bolt when I am back home (and a new shock) he said the torque setting is vital hence it shaking out. So can anyone tell me what this should be...?
Huge thanks in advance everyone
Need a bit of advice that I could not find on the net and judging by the quality of the threads IÂ’ve read before I signed up IÂ’m pretty sure one or two of you super helpful folk can help me?
IÂ’ve got a 2009 2.0Cdti auto with the 163 output.
I had a broken rear coil spring and decided to replace the rear shocks too. The car had 80k on it when I bought it with no service history. IÂ’ve done 20k in the past 11 months. However I had to replace the shocks and the upper cushion mounts as the tops of the shock spindles were completely wrecked and seized.
Anyway having thought I was a fairly competent home home mechanic I hadnÂ’t torqued up the bottom shock mount (21mm) and embarrassingly the bolt shook loose and is on the M1 somewhere whilst on our current festive holiday trip to the Highlands and and I got as far as Kwik Fit in Newcastle to discover this (I live in Essex!) fortunately a very friendly Vauxhall dealer in Newcastle (DavidsonÂ’s) found a bolt with same thread (and nut) and sent us on our way. I still need to get the correct bolt when I am back home (and a new shock) he said the torque setting is vital hence it shaking out. So can anyone tell me what this should be...?
Huge thanks in advance everyone
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