sooo....i bought my d2's back around march-april 05...i blew a rear strut at around november of 06....just two days ago, i heard a popping noise when i went over a bump and not the usual sound. Checked the coilover really quick and i can see all the oil leaking onto the spring, so yea...great, blown strut. I just bought a new rear strut last time and replaced it since they were pretty new. I just called D2, and its about $130 shipped to my house for just one front strut. Question is, have any of you around here rebuilt a coilover yourself?? searched on the org a little and no luck finding out rebuilding these yourself. I know that rebuilding forks on a motorcycle is quite costly, but i'm not sure if its the same for a strut. Did find a store that will rebuild koni's only tho. Since these coilovers have some mileage on them, i was thinking about tackling it myself and see if it works if its significantly cheaper. If i save like $50 on all four, then i'll just buy the coilovers from d2. But if i save like $200-$300 on all four, then i might try to rebuild/revalve (dunno what the difference is) them

 

Unlike a motorcycle fork, there's more to rebuilding a strut then just replacing seals, guides and fluid. How would you replace the gas charge that prevents the fluid from foaming? How would you open it up? M/C forks have a fork tube cap, struts don't.

 

point noted. And i'm assuming that the d2 strut is probably cheap enough that if a company with the proper tools were to rebuild a strut, it wouldn't be cost efficient. njmax..from your one post...i believe this thread as already failed. sorry for a waste of bandwidth..

 

'Rrebuilding' the coilover consists of taking it off the car, pulling everything off the strut, and then putting everything back on the new strut, right?

The actual 'rebuild' that D2, Ksport etc do to a strut consists of taking it apart, putting in new valves, bushings, oil and then sealing it back up. Something you cant do at home.