Hi,

I'm well aware that the topic of old man emu's vs other suspension has been well and truly flogged to death and as I'm a newby to this forum I'm wary of overstepping the mark and getting "flamed".

The thing is I was about send off for a new set of ome's for my new HJ60 when the friendly chap that I was dealing with mentioned that ome now make a new cheaper (!) range called the DAKAR, the only thing different I can tell about them from a picture (apart from the price) is they have less yellow on them. So I went looking on the net and this is what I found:

http://www.4x4review.com/products/su.../ome-dakar.asp

This review makes them sound great but I don't know a lot about the reviewers, what I do know is that you bunch might have something to say. So my questions are the following:

1) Has anybody used specifically the DAKAR ome, are they as good as the famous ome's? Or is it a case of you get what you pay for? To give you a context I'm doing a London to Cape Town trip.

2) Generally is suspension that hard to fit? The price tag of £320 to fit sounds a little steep and while I'm no mechanical genius I'm not a cluts either. I figure I need to learn but if it's a specialised job I'll leave it to the experts. Suggested tools required?

Cheers all and if for some reason I've missed a thread on this somewhere else by all means ignore this one and let me know.

Thanks a ton
Simon

Guess I'll be the guinnea pig, just ordered a set of Dakar OME's on Friday. Hopefully it won't have been a mistake.

Cheers
Simon

[This message has been edited by simon_c (edited 10 April 2005).]