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Author:  cooperess [ Wed Dec 27, 2017 7:12 am ]
Post subject:  New Hydrolastic Units
I found this article and wondered if any one knows how it's progressing and how much interest there is in this part of the world.

http://mk1-forum.net/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=15392
Author:  M-JAY [ Thu Dec 28, 2017 6:03 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: New Hydrolastic Units
Sounds promising.
Author:  Bill B [ Thu Dec 28, 2017 8:53 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: New Hydrolastic Units
Minis are lucky to have a huge aftermarket supply chain and there are few parts not available to them because of the large numbers of survivors.
But, generally, mini owners are cheapskates.
Remade displacers will be very expensive, as the originals must have been.
It will be a brave decision to remake and supply these items to a market that, when offered to them, will look the other way and hear their mother calling them home for dinner.
Author:  p7676 [ Fri Dec 29, 2017 9:17 am ]
Post subject:  Re: New Hydrolastic Units
Bill B well said
Author:  cooperess [ Fri Dec 29, 2017 9:28 am ]
Post subject:  Re: New Hydrolastic Units
Not all Mini owners are cheapskates but granted I have no idea how much the bags will cost or the number of sales would be advantageous for the supplier.
Author:  winabbey [ Sun Jan 13, 2019 1:57 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: New Hydrolastic Units
Just noticed a post on the Google Austin1800 Group page regarding the re-manufacturing of displacers.

I have just received an update on the remanufacture of the hydrolastic units. First the good news it appears that all of the original Dunlop documentation has now been found and good progress has been made with the development of the units by a "large automotive organisation" which is partnering the sponsoring company and I was told is very enthusiastic.

However, because of Brexit the R&D budget has temporarily, we hope, been reduced which inevitably means delays. As indicated earlier it is likely that the first units to be made available will be for the ADO16 (1100/1300) range which also fit the crab rears.

Next update will be mid year.

David
Author:  simon k [ Sun Jan 13, 2019 2:16 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: New Hydrolastic Units
winabbey wrote:
Just noticed a post on the Google Austin1800 Group page regarding the re-manufacturing of displacers.

I have just received an update on the remanufacture of the hydrolastic units. First the good news it appears that all of the original Dunlop documentation has now been found and good progress has been made with the development of the units by a "large automotive organisation" which is partnering the sponsoring company and I was told is very enthusiastic.

However, because of Brexit the R&D budget has temporarily, we hope, been reduced which inevitably means delays. As indicated earlier it is likely that the first units to be made available will be for the ADO16 (1100/1300) range which also fit the crab rears.

Next update will be mid year.

David


erk - "large automotive organisations" need to see market projections and cost breakdowns and modelling that shoes their costs recovered and then making a profit...
Author:  BBY755 [ Sun Jan 13, 2019 5:57 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: New Hydrolastic Units
Would have imagined a bigger market for minis rather than other BMC cars......
Author:  timmy201 [ Sun Jan 13, 2019 6:05 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: New Hydrolastic Units
At least for minis there is a backup option - rubber cones. For the rest it's hydro or scrap the car
Author:  TheMiniMan [ Tue Jan 15, 2019 4:32 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: New Hydrolastic Units
if the rubber is good & the 1100/1300 ones don`t blow ... "Then" the mini ones should be ok,,, if they handle the weight/treatment of testing in an elephundred then they should be sweet for the mini :-)
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