This morning I ordered koni shocks from Prevost parts...there are 2 on the frt axle($148), 2 on the tag and 4 on the drive($180)
for a total of $1,374.
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This morning I ordered koni shocks from Prevost parts...there are 2 on the frt axle($148), 2 on the tag and 4 on the drive($180)
for a total of $1,374.
Once you installed them let us know if it is as unbelievable as my coach is now.
Jack14r
What's the noise you mentioned in the front end. When I hit an expansion joint I hear the regular tire bump and then a secondary boom on my X L II's front axle.
I think that would describe the noise my coach had before the Koni shocks.
Ordered a set (2 steer/4drive/2tag) installed at Prevost Fort Worth for $1700.00 out the door. Had to work on Rodney abit to get them to that number but he finally caved. Now I have to hope when its complete that the bill is actually for 1700.00, as in the past their final bills tend to be higher then their quotes which leads to consternation-indignation-aggravation followed by frustration and then finally to compromise. Which inevitably has me walking to the bus talking to myself about not spending anymore money here. UNTIL NEXT TIME!!!! OH, also I was told by them that Koni doesn't make shocks for the tag so they were going to use OEM. Does that sound right? Why would Koni not have them for the tags?
Patrick, the Koni web site might help everyone with this shock problem and part numbers.
http://www.konirv.com/nextstep.cfm?M...+XLII+w%2F+IFS
The Rear / Tag shocks are the same #'s 902573.
The Front Shock is # 902574.
Maybe Prevost was out of them? I would make Rodney check again for Koni, NOT OEM Shocks. Just my 2 cents worth.
Gary S.
Earlier today I called Fort Worth Prevost (FWP) to confirm that as Gary states above the Koni shocks for the tag are in fact the same as the ones for the rear axle. Apparently after they (FWP) done a little research on their end they discovered and reported to me that Prevost no longer offers the Koni shocks for either the rear nor tag. They explained to me that there appears to be a clearance issue and that they are speaking to Koni about the problem but for now there is no Koni alternative. Can anyone else shed any light on this? The use of these shocks sure sounded good here on the thread, enough so that I jumped right on trying to put them on my bus, However at this point I don't know!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Patrick,
When I ordered my koni shocks directly from Prevost parts in Elgin, IL they had no problem looking up the part number using either the Koni website part numbers or
going directly to the Prevost part number. Apparantly parts are warehoused at the Prevost service centers. The Konis for my chassis were inventoried in
Jacksonville, FL and were being shipped to me at my FL residence. I will be returning to FL on Fri. and will install them on Sat. If there is a problem with the
fit I will post the problem on this site.
I installed mine myself and I did not have any clearance issues,the factory OEM and the Koni are almost the same size,I did not measure them but I don't see any real difference.There have been others that have installed the Konis and no one has reported a problem on this board.
grross/jack,
Its really hard to say with these guys at Fort Worth Prevost I've heard things from them before that turned out not to be quite as they presented. Anyway its good that we have people on this site that can give us first hand knowledge. I will wait to install the rear ones until I can look into it further. I will report back on what if anything I discover. Thanks for the input.