by srb on Tue Apr 30, 2019 8:43 am
That's a bit surprising with Ultimate, usually they're very good with warranty support.
My first round of front struts were a bit shagged after my first trip around Aus. However, that was after 35k kms of extremely hard use... The steel top hats were chewed out, bushes were all gone, nothing leaking but the oil that came out was black. I paid to have them rebuilt, can't remember what it cost but was quite cheap. Same thing happened on the next trip but not as bad. Also had rear shocks rebuilt first time around but didn't bother second time... probably reason why they're leaking now.
Since then I haven't touched the fronts, and they've done nearly 100k km, I'll probably replace them at the end of the year as they're not feeling too great now.
There's definitely better gear out there but I'll probably stick with Ultimate for the Triton. Especially now that it only gets used as a work hack and the occasional play around my local tracks. Always had good customer service with Ultimate but I'm a little reluctant now that Brendan isn't there.
If I was doing it all again, setting the Triton up for outback touring, I'd go for a more high end product / race tunable shocks like Icon, King, Fox or DMS... Not sure what would work best on the Triton as you really need a specialist to set these up properly.
The Ultimates I have on the Triton are seriously lacking when it comes to carrying heavy loads across the outback desert tracks, just not enough high speed dampening or rebound control, they just don't cut it like a proper race tuned shock.
On our Landcruiser, I recently installed set of Icon stage 4 shocks with built in hydraulic bumpstop cdc fully adjustable dampening... the performance is something out of this world!!
It cost me nearly double what Ultimate had quoted me but I'm certainly getting more than double the performance.
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