The Ford Capri Laser Page

Guys n ladies,
Is there any other struts off newer cars that can fit the Capri and do the same job?

Hi,
If you'd like to keep the original boot struts, but yours are a little feeble, it may be possible to get them re-gassed.
SGS Engineering do it https://www.sgs-engineering.com/gas-str ... ng-service .
When I had mine done a few years ago, it cost around £35.

Andrew.

I'm pretty sure that my friend Alan (deals in Capri parts and spares, etc.) had some new ones for sale. You can always phone or text him - 07757947080 Just mention Paul with the red Laser. He's a nice guy.

I can recommend SGS

andyd wrote:I can recommend SGS

Last year they quoted me £48 to re gas or £56 to supply new. On top of the £48 you'd have to send your existing ones off, so at that price differential I'd just buy new I think. That said, with other things being bigger priorities I never got around to actually ordering in the end. I tell myself I'll do it next week every time the tailgate catch crashes into the small of my back (oww!).

tejb1 wrote:Last year they quoted me £48 to re gas or £56 to supply new. On top of the £48 you'd have to send your existing ones off, so at that price differential I'd just buy new I think. That said, with other things being bigger priorities I never got around to actually ordering in the end. I tell myself I'll do it next week every time the tailgate catch crashes into the small of my back (oww!).

I paid around £45 in 2015 and that included my postage of the struts to them.
I sent them off on the Monday afternoon, and they were back on the car Thursday lunchtime

And yes those tailgates do hurt when they come down on you

SGS offer a good service yes, and the other nice thing about re-gassing your existing struts is that you keep struts with the right date code on them - a date code that is broadly in line with the build date of your car. Which is nice if you count rivets.

pbar wrote:I'm pretty sure that my friend Alan (deals in Capri parts and spares, etc.) had some new ones for sale. You can always phone or text him - 07757947080 Just mention Paul with the red Laser. He's a nice guy.

Unless he sends them to the wrong address and they go missing and refuses to give you a refund of course...

Cheers for that info fellas