Old man emu vs tough dog vs tjm golds

[Cuppa]

In my non 4wd experience Koni adjustables take a lot of beating......But when I was looking for our Patrol I found that all the ex Telstra Patrols had OME fitted. Or at least all those I looked at. These have a 2" lift, carried heavy loads regularly over remote rough roads & I would expect that Telstra would fit the brand of shocks that they got best service out of.

Cuppa. ♨

[stets]

Mate I use tough dog coils and shocks. Can fault them.
2" heavy duty springs give me a real feeling of the road. And flex very well considering my over all setup.
Tough dog foam cell shocks(the old ones) have seen some hard roads, tough conditions and have been flogged from full compression shock drop so many times I can count. After a bit more than 100,000 k's and my articulation torture I'm looking to replace them before they fail.
It's a toss up between td's big bore adjustables or go the whole hog and get some amada extreme remote resie shocks.
Basically trying to choose between something I can adjust every trip or a custom tuned comp spec shock.... Hard call but that's how good tough dog have proven to be


Tap,tap,tapping in your head

[Patrol94]

Thanks for the help everyone it was a tough decision but hearing all the good things bout ome I decided to order a 2" nitro charger sport shocks with mediu
m rate coils.. thanks for all the input. Can't wait to fit the lift followed with some 33" bfg muds big gu gonna be looking tough then I reckon

[TrueBlue]

I have a 2012 patrol wagon and 6 weeks after I drove from the show room floor - it has already started to sag at the rear aprox 60 mm. I hope Nissan will address this saging issue at the first 10 k service

[nipagu7]

I have 2011 model that I bought new in april . I think I'll go out and measure the ride hight and keep an eye on it after reading that !

[happygu]

TrueBlue, Take the 600kgs out of the back and measure again......60mm is a long way for the standard springs to sag - both sides in just 6 weeks, and you haven't even done 10K on them?
Are you sure that you measured correctly when you wheeled out of the showroom floor. The rear flares themselves hang a little deeper then the front, so if you are measuring front against rear, it may seem like it has sagged.
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You need to make sure that the car is on flat ground, measure from the bottom lip (where you can hook your measuring tape onto ) of the alloy wheel, up to the under edge of the flare, as shown in the pic. Do this on yours, and do this on one at a dealer, and you will soon know if it has sagged 60 mm.

Mic

[taslucas]

instead of measuring from the lip of the mag, measure from the centre of the wheel (axle centre). That will give you an accurate measurement regardless of the wheel/rim size

[Patrol94]

i have a 2011 model ute (coils all round) with heavy duty steel tray and have deffinitely noticed its sagged probably around 15mm in the rear front not a noticable change and it has 30 000km on it. would have liked to of thought about measuring it when i brought it but wasnt something i thought of at the time :/

[happygu]

Yeah Taslucas. I should have mentioned that you can only measure it my way is with identical rims. If you have identical rims then doing it the way I have mentioned is the most accurate, as you can hold the tape measure directly against the lowest part of the lower lip of the rim and the flare itself, reducing any parrallex errors in viewing.

If you are measuring with different size rims, then you will need to measure to the middle of the hub, but also remember that with the wheel in the way you can't measure directly against the hub, so you are getting a close measurement but it can be skewed by the angle you are viewing at. IE If you stand four inches higher on one wheel compared to another, then looking at the tape against the hub then you will see the measurement slightly different to when you are looking at it directly parrallel to the ground.

Mic