Dear All,

Ok been scratching my head and pacing up and down for the whole of Saturday wondering what I should do....so many differing thoughts on the best way to go but I thought I'd just ask on personal experiences!

So the situation is: 12 months travelling around Africa in my LR110 which will be pretty heavily laden with kit so getting close to 3000kgs. I have LR HD springs with 130 helpers inside and am unsure of the best thing to do about the type of shock absorber to fit.

Two trains of thought really:

1. Fit Old Man Emu shocks as they are the bees knees (subject to a few bad experiences I've heard about) but will cost a small fortune as I have to buy six in all (two spares) and look like costing around £300 for the lot. If one of these fails and the other side goes pretty quickly after, the likelyhood of finding another OME supplier anywhere apart from South Africa is remote potentially leaving me stranded with no simple replacement option.

2. Fit Land Rover shocks (not sure if HD are available from them??) and as they are a standard part it should be fairly easy to pick them up from a LR agent/local garage/vehicle stripper somewhere en route.

Or do people have other suggestions on the best way to take on this problem? Really be good to hear your thoughts!

A confuzzled and frustrated Ben

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