Hydragas and Hydrolastic Service Ltd

16/10/2026

Yesterday we left our hotel in Reading and travelled to New Milton where we removed all four Hydragas units from an Allegro that is being broken for spares. Having enough units to supply our customers has been one of the things that has helped our business to be incredibly successful over the last 16 years. From there we travelled to Christchurch where we carried out the fitment of a set of recharged Hydragas units to a lovely MGF. As always excellent results and completed in good time. Unfortunately the units removed from this car were in terrible condition with the fronts definitely scrap, this was caused by the car being used for too long with no nitrogen left in the units and also the wrong fluid being used. All cars with Hydragas suspension are of an age where recharged units are necessary www.hahsltd.co.uk

15/10/2026

On Tuesday we travelled to Redditch where we carried out the fitment of a set of recharged Hydragas units to a lovely Rover 1.1s. All went well and the car soon had a lovely ride. We then travelled to one of our regular breakers, also in Redditch to collect a set of MGF units for our stocks. We then travelled to Nuneaton to look at a very early Mk1 Metro where we had already replaced the Hydragas units. The front left hand suspension was making a creaking noise and the customer was almost certain that it was the knuckle joint under the displacer. We depressurised the fluid and removed the Hydragas unit, we then removed the suspect knuckle joint. It turned out that the nylon cup had eroded away at the bottom and there was metal to metal contact between the ball end of the joint and the arm itself. The customer had a new joint assembly and this was soon fitted, the suspension pumped up again and the noise eradicated. From there we went to our final job of the day in Kettering where we carried out another full fitment to a Metro Mk2. This was soon completed and again with excellent results www.hahsltd.co.uk

13/10/2026

Another busy weekend packing orders up www.hahsltd.co.uk

10/10/2026

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10/10/2026

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09/10/2026

Today we left our hotel in Exeter to drive a few miles to our first job which was to fit a set of recharged Hydragas units to an MGF. The owner is a previous customer of ours and the Maxi we did for him was sitting proudly in the street, almost as if to welcome us. The MGF was already jacked up and on stands as the customer was carrying out other work to it. The job went very well and we were soon on our way to our second job in Totnes which was to carry out the same work on another MGF. We were working outside and it rained a bit but we got on with the job and it was soon completed, giving the car an excellent ride and handling www.hahsltd.co.uk

07/10/2026

Yesterday was a very busy day for us with three mobile fitments to three lovely cars. The first was a Metro City in Clove Brown in Henley-on-Thames. The suspension was rigid and very uncomfortable. The full fitment was soon completed and this lovely car is very comfortable to drive. We then travelled to High Wycombe where our second job was another fitment to an MGF. This one had been driven around too long with a hard ride and this had caused a rear unit to fail, rendering the car undriveable. Within a couple of hours the suspension was sitting as it should with the car now lovely to drive. Our final job was a beautiful MGF Trophy back in Telford. Once the job got underway it was apparent that the aperture in one of the rear pipes was blocked and we were unsuccessful in our attempts to drill out the blockage. We always carry spare pipes and we replaced this and then all four units. In completion the customer took the car for a drive and was amazed at the difference our work had brought about www.hahsltd.co.uk

06/10/2026

We’ve had an extremely busy weekend packing the orders we’ve sold recently as well as completing customer’s own rehosing and regassing www.hahsltd.co.uk

03/10/2026

Yesterday we travelled to Long Eaton where we carried out the fitment of recharged Hydragas units to two beautiful MG Metro Turbos for the same customer. Quite often we have customers who have multiple cars done by us, some customers have large collections of cars where we’ve done more than 15 Hydragas fitments for the same customer. This underlines the love people have for the cars with this unique suspension system and the confidence they have that the job will be carried out carefully and successfully by ourselves. From there we travelled to Ludlow in Shropshire to look at a lovely low mileage Connaught Green Longbridge built Morris 1100 Mk1 where the suspension had gone down on one side. We attached the pump and pumped it up to the correct height and carefully inspected the system. It wasn’t long before we spotted the leak, it was a perished hose on the rear unit. We will be fitting a rehosed Hydrolastic unit on another visit www.hahsltd.co.uk

01/10/2026

Today we travelled to Goole where we carried out the fitment of a set of recharged Hydragas units to a Belgian built Allegro 1500 Special. This car really benefited from our work as the suspension travel was very stunted. It was all completed in three hours with a lovely ride and very happy customer www.hahsltd.co.uk