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Originally Posted by The G-Man
While we are kinda on topic about collapsed xreas. How do you know the system is trash? Like if there’s an obvious leak, that’s easy. But without a smoking gun of a leak how can you tell it’s time to replace?
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Good question. I bought my '03 used about 6 years ago and it was xreas. When I went to pick it up from dealer the night I bought it they were just putting on a new front shock and told me they are really expensive. At the time I didn;t know what xreas even was!
I had no suspension complaints except I noticed a kind of "hollow" sound in the winter over some bumps. Anyway after joining this forum and reading about better suspension I decided to replace mine "just because".
By that time I knew I had xreas and was ready to disconnect it properly but as I started to remove it I broke one of the lines at shock loose just to see what would happen ... nothing ... the system had no gas pressure. I didn't even know it. So it may not be all that obvious when Xreas goes bad if trhere is no external oil leak.
By the way, the "hollow" sound in the winter is gone too!
