New Cheap Air Tanks

You sure that train is not for you?

Hey truckster now you done it mate, Dont start me with the model trains again..god knows I spent enough hours playing with them years ago.

How was the trip to Wagga Wagga? happy with the outcome?

Truckset, it was $29 for the air Tank, $70 was for the poly air complete kit for the surf, still cheap in my books!

Oh yeah, did you look at the site? They sell truck parts, including larger volume tanks....
I range the only truck wrecker I could find in Perth and they were talking between $50 and $100 for a second hand one.
Still cheaper to bring one in with my poly airs.

My thought, John were if I was going to bring in the poly airs, why not whack a $30 air tank on as well.

Cause you will get hit with duties on it too.. which will kill any savings.... Plus warranty issues..

You cant get poly airs in aussie for it?

i did excatly what you are discussing a couple of months ago Jeff as i couldnt find anything decent here in perth.
I had the tank and polyairs sent by surface mail- not air freight and thus avoided any duties or additional taxes.
The waiting time was 10 weeks though- i wasnt in any rush!!
cant fault the service of the guys at Trucksprings.

Duties my foot! You shouldn't have to pay duties on that kind of value for personal use, hell I don't even pay duties on that sort of value for business when I import!
Worst case just put it down as a warranty replacment part or similar.
Yeah I can get poly airs for my Surf in oz, but not a complete kit for AU$99 I bloody can't!

Oh yeah, thank Ruffstuff, it's always good to speak to somone who has ordered from an international company before doing it your self, good peice of mind.

Truckster, I just range WA Suspensions and got a quote for buying a poly air kit for the surf/4runner. $332.
$99 plus freight still looks good mate.

Jeff,
forgot to mention, freight was aprox $43 surface mail or aboit $98 for air freight (aus Dollars)
I got some great fitting tips from Jack who posted earlier, so if you need any advice im happy to help

Thanks Ruffstuff, I just rang another suspension place and they quote $320 for the poly air kit, so I just ordered them from TruckSprings. :-)
Wife's gonna kill me, but it's "a saftey issue". LOL

Thanks! I have just been thinking about this latley as I put my 52L water tank in the surf on the weekend, plus I want a long range fuel tank in the future and the "heavy duty" springs I had fitted were not that heavy duty IMO. Poly airs should solve the problem I guess.

I've been importing gear on a professional level for a few years now and I can see how much markup some of these bastards are making, I sell my products for $100's of dollars less when they are better and I still feel bad that I'm charging so much. Stuff them, if they are going to be rediculously greedy they can go jump. Sure if I was talking 10-20% difference, but bloody way way over double the price. Get real...
Not only that but like all 4wd products I've priced they seem to all sell for the same outragous prices. It's about time the illegal price fixing game in the 4wd market is stopped!
Just my 2c.

I'm a strong beliver in paying for what you get, and I'm a strong beliver that good service does not come cheap. But guys, I just want to buy some poly bags and put them in myself, If it breaks, I'll buy a new one, just take my money and give me the stuff, not much required there.
If there was a product that was $50 more expensive and I could see a good reason, I'd probally go the more expensive product, but for something that's the same paying double the price so some importer can sit pretty in his flash house by the pool while I'm crawling around someones hot roof pulling cables to pay for it, no thanks.

LOL. You dag!
Mine doesn't know yet, I expect to get some questions about the $210 I spent when I get home today.... :-)

Still not bad for an air tank and a complete poly air kit for the 4wd plus air freight.
Could have saved about $35 for economy freight but did'nt want to wait 2 months for the gear.

word up big G , so erics going cruising with the homies eh !!

Did you get the full front/rear/side/side set up with the solenoid block etc. or just the single all up/down job.

Ps- there is a great lead sled that is always parked outside the Gelobar in Lygon st north, got the airbags etc. when parked the sills are sitting on the ground !! looks great.

Up down side to side , air tank , the whole 9 yards lol . even got a flame thrower hahahaha , now to find a good propaine kit , looking looking lol

grease lightning here we come !! Hey i know they have nice 'anti carjack' flame throwers over in South Africa, might be a bit over the top for the caddy though.. Sounds nice buddy.