Sphere Recharge

[demag]

Last Sunday I collected a Bx16TGS automatic. 50k ish on the clock, I drove it back from Bristol without incident but the cooling fan wasn't working and in traffic it got a touch warm. I fixed that and a sticky throttle yesterday however the car hasn't had much use over the last year or so and the ride is getting slightly firm. Is there anyone who can do me a recharge in the West Midlands area within about 50 miles of Birmingham?

[Gibbo2286]

You can probably buy new spheres cheap enough now to be a better answer than recharging the old ones, they were available recently for around £21 each, worth a shop around session.

[Mandrake]

Agreed. Try somewhere like AEP direct for new spheres.

Also, spheres can only be re-gassed if they haven't been allowed to fall below approximately half their normal pressure. Once they get too much below that it causes excessive stresses on the diaphragm which often result in the sphere failing soon after re-gassing or at least having an unusually short life time after re-gassing. (Weeks or months instead of years)

So on any car that's new to you where the history of the spheres is unknown and they are low enough that the ride is obviously hard or bouncy, replacement is the only sensible option if you don't want to be doing the job again soon.