Hydragas and Hydrolastic Service Ltd

Hydragas and Hydrolastic Service Ltd We are a company specialising in all BMC/BL/Rover Group/MG Rover cars with Hydragas and Hydrolastic suspension systems

On Thursday we travelled toGloucestershire where we carried out the fitment of a set of recharged Hydragas units to a ve...
13/06/2026

On Thursday we travelled to
Gloucestershire where we carried out the fitment of a set of recharged Hydragas units to a very nice Princess which as always was badly in need of our work. Work soon got underway, the rain was torrential but the customer provided us with a reasonable sized garage to work in fortunately. The left hand rear radius arm shaft was found to be seized into its bushes when we attempted to remove it but we come prepared for this by carrying spare radius arms. The brake drum, backplate and brake pipe had to be removed so we could remove the radius arm complete with suspension unit and then fit another shaft and radius arm that we carry before reassembling it all with the recharged Hydragas unit. The rest of the job went well and the car soon had a superb ride www.hahsltd.co.uk

Yesterday we only had to go 8 miles to work!! We carried out the fitment of a set of recharged units to a very nice MGF...
09/06/2026

Yesterday we only had to go 8 miles to work!! We carried out the fitment of a set of recharged units to a very nice MGF. The customer was extremely happy with the results when he took it for a test drive afterwards www.hahsltd.co.uk

On Friday, we left our hotel in Leeds to travel to our first job in Bedale where we carried out the fitment of a set of ...
01/06/2026

On Friday, we left our hotel in Leeds to travel to our first job in Bedale where we carried out the fitment of a set of recharged Hydragas units to a lovely MGF which was the customers pride and joy. It was being badly let down by a hard and uncomfortable ride. This was totally cured by our work which took less than two and a half hours and the car can now be enjoyed to the full. From there we travelled to Morpeth to carry out the same job on another MGF which the customer has owned from new. Again everything went well and now the suspension feels like new again www.hahsltd.co.uk

On Thursday we left our hotel in Leeds to travel to Sheffield to look at an Austin 1300 based Ranger kit car. The suspe...
30/05/2026

On Thursday we left our hotel in Leeds to travel to Sheffield to look at an Austin 1300 based Ranger kit car. The suspension was rather low all round but worse on one side. We topped the fluid up on the right hand side and all was well but then discovered that Citroen LHM fluid had been mistakenly used in the past to top up the other side. We had the messy job of draining this out and then refilling with the correct fluid. Afterwards the suspension was working normally but time will tell if the Hydrolastic units will survive the contamination. We are always there with plenty of units in stock should there be any failures later on. From there we travelled to Barnsley to collect some Mini Hydrolastic units for our stocks. The seller had 20 available but the car was too full to fit them all in, we came away with half of them and the seller very kindly offered to hold on to the others until we can return next month. From there we travelled to Gomersal where we carried out the fitment of a set of recharged Hydragas units to an early VP 1500. The customer had previously mentioned about a knocking noise coming from the front so we had a rebushed steering rack with us just in case. Sure enough it turned out the bush was worn in the steering rack. It was a long job fitting the Hydragas units as well as the steering rack. The steering column needed some adjustment and the rebushed rack a bit of a “workout” to get the steering operating smoothly and freely but it was all well worth it and the car now has lovely suspension and excellent steering without the knock www.hahsltd.co.uk

Yesterday we travelled to Trefonen in Shropshire where we carried out the fitment of a set of recharged units to an MGF ...
28/05/2026

Yesterday we travelled to Trefonen in Shropshire where we carried out the fitment of a set of recharged units to an MGF Abingdon. The car now has a lovely comfortable ride and the customer was most impressed. We then travelled to Wrexham to look at a very sound VP 1100 where the suspension had gone down on one side. The front to rear pipe was corroded through in two areas towards the middle and rear. A replacement piece of pipe was made up and spliced in and the suspension was soon up where it should be. Our final job of the day was at a garage in Mold where an MGF was undergoing other repairs. We carried out the fitment of a set of recharged Hydragas units on the spot without having to move the car and it was all completed in well under three hours. We then travelled to Leeds where we are stopping in a hotel for the next couple of days while we are working in the area www.hahsltd.co.uk

Thursday was a very busy MGF day for us. We set off from our hotel in Redditch where we carried out the fitment of rech...
16/05/2026

Thursday was a very busy MGF day for us. We set off from our hotel in Redditch where we carried out the fitment of recharged Hydragas units to two MGFs at the one customers house. All went well and both cars soon had a lovely comfortable ride. Unfortunately one of the cars had been topped up with oil so the two front units were scrap. From there we travelled to Bishops Itchington to carry out the same job on another MGF. Once again everything went well (apart from the hail storms!!) with the car being excellent to drive afterwards www.hahsltd.co.uk

Yesterday we left our hotel in Bournemouth to travel a few miles to our first job which was to help out a former suspens...
14/05/2026

Yesterday we left our hotel in Bournemouth to travel a few miles to our first job which was to help out a former suspension customer. The suspension is still going strong but she’s well into her 80’s and owned her Metro from new and is now having problems with garages carrying out work for her. She’s quite particular and wasn’t happy about her choke warning light not working and there being no illumination of the fuel and temperature gauge, also the illumination on the clock was intermittent. The last time she took it to a garage they didn’t fix any of the problems, broke the indicator stalk in the process and then charged her! We don’t normally do other jobs except for suspension but we felt we had to step in and help as she has no one else. When we last looked at a previous dashboard problem for her we noticed the printed circuit tracks to the instrument illumination were in poor condition. We brought a spare instrument cluster we had with the later type of “hard wired” instrument illumination. We removed the cluster from her car and then cut away the portion of printed circuit with the damaged tracks and fitted the hard wired illumination from the other cluster restoring full illumination to the instruments. We found that someone had removed the bulb and holder for the choke warning lamp and not replaced it so we fitted a bulb and holder from the other instrument pack, once refitted all was well and everything worked. We turned our attention to the clock. This turned out to be the bulb and this was replaced. We then had a look at the indicator stalk, removing it and finding someone had “lubricated” it with white spray grease, clogging up the mechanism. We cleared this away with contact cleaner and this improved its operation but it is very worn and floppy so we’ll be fitting a new one on our next visit. She then wanted us to look at an MOT advisory of corrosion within a suspension mounting area. This turned out to be very minor corrosion of the outer front panel near the bottoms of the wings. We will make up some repair sections and weld them in on a future visit. We left with her very happy! From there we travelled to Wareham where we carried out the fitment of a set of recharged Hydragas units to a very nice MGF. The job went well and the customer who is not far off 90 years of age was delighted www.hahsltd.co.uk

Today we travelled to Stevenage where we carried out the fitment of a set of recharged Hydragas units to a very nice MGF...
12/05/2026

Today we travelled to Stevenage where we carried out the fitment of a set of recharged Hydragas units to a very nice MGF anniversary model. All went well and the ride quality was excellent afterwards. From there we travelled to Hatfield where we carried out the same job on an immaculate low mileage MGF Trophy. The customer had given up driving it as the ride was intolerable. Following our work he will be able to fully enjoy this lovely car this summer. We then drove down to Poole to a previous MGF customer to carry out his first fluid top up after fitment of recharged units around 3 years ago. Following the top up we checked the suspension and it was still performing faultlessly

We’ve had a busy few days packing all the sales and jobs we’ve done this weekend which includes a large amount of sales ...
12/05/2026

We’ve had a busy few days packing all the sales and jobs we’ve done this weekend which includes a large amount of sales of recharged and tested MGF and Austin Metro Hydragas units. We also carried out regassing and testing of a set of Allegro units and a set of Austin Metro units. We’ve also sold a couple of our compact suspension pumps www.hahsltd.co.uk

Yesterday we travelled from our hotel in Blackpool to carry out the fitment of recharged Hydragas units to two very nice...
07/05/2026

Yesterday we travelled from our hotel in Blackpool to carry out the fitment of recharged Hydragas units to two very nice Metros owned by the same customer. All went very well and by midday both cars were completed. The difference was like night and day www.hahsltd.co.uk

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Telford
TF20DD

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