OK, I know its not good practice to replace rear shocks by side( should be both) but at times circumstances and finances say different.

Long story short. 

This weekend I've had to replace one, and found Energize custom do let you buy one.

Its a simple job. Remove wheel, remove arch liner ( 2.5 torx) and bottom bolt. You will need to support radius arm on an axle stand, and reduce pressure on bolt.Top mount bolts need to be removed then end bolt on stock. Shock shaft is a fit to top Mount. Last one was a slack fit, this one had to be "persuaded" using Haynes persuader. ( mash hammer)as its only a friction fit.

Refit top/bottom bolts using Loctite and torque. For top mount bolts, a long socket extension is needed.

 

Mine has had both renewed along with the springs now, both at different times as well due to circumstances. Same with the front.

 

But yes, rear shocks are a nice, relatively straightforward job to do.

For anyone unfortunate ( like me) to have to replace only one rear shock, I'd recommend Energized custom (/Telford based) for price ( and will supply singles) . The only problem from them( not theirs, but choice of courier) is courier Evri, who seem to loose parts for a day. I've had this with Evri twice, with parcel left on doorstep but Royal mail is offered as alternative.

, Energized were gracious enough to refund part of cost.

However couriers have problems with anything up north.

2 minutes ago, VWD said:

For anyone unfortunate ( like me) to have to replace only one rear shock, I'd recommend Energized custom (/Telford based) for price ( and will supply singles) . The only problem from them( not theirs, but choice of courier) is courier Evri, who seem to loose parts for a day. I've had this with Evri twice, with parcel left on doorstep but Royal mail is offered as alternative.

, Energized were gracious enough to refund part of cost.

However couriers have problems with anything up north.

 

Not just up norf, Evri and Yodel are more than capable of ****ing any delivery up, anywhere!

Sep.

Talking about cost north of Glasgow, but yep, agreed but not limited to those you mentioned. Most of the vans ( of any colour) run around like headless chickens, so its not surprised they make RM/Parcel force look like pros.

Possibly down to rates paid to drivers.

Only RM, PF and UPS use retained drivers, the rest are pseudo self-employed drivers on a piecework rate who simply skip time consuming drops and return the package to the depot, once the package has 'bounced' a few times it gets RTC.

I use a simple way I use the track system to trace a car bit.if bit stops for a couple of hours I contact supplier. Then a nudge( parcel will be rejected) gets it moving. And waking up suppliers to defects in courier gets results. Supplier refunds courier costs, courier has to refund .

The answer that I got when I queried the movement of an item being sent via Evri was,  "a very short time is given for an item passing through a main handling hub", so after "its clock" has run out, that package tends to get either returned to sender, binned as waste or added to an auction list of packages, which, for their business model, probably makes good sense. For us waiting at the other end, not so good, to be fair though, I was very surprised that Evri was interested in talking to me as I was not the original sender - so not their customer, but I felt that I had to do that as my supplier was just taking the line "oh it will turn up soon" and even got grumpy when I advised them that Evri had accepted that that package was officially listed as "lost in transit" . That package laid low for maybe 6 weeks, then started moving out of the first hub and stuttered around the country, showing up on my door step maybe 2 months later, by that time the tracking number been deleted and then re-appeared again, very strange, my trader had quickly handed me back my money after I demanded to know what their next planned move was though, maybe 3 weeks after I paid for that item.

 

That also happened to something that I bought in from China - I was only doing that as UK suppliers don't want to sell small volumes of some stuff to UK residents without charging an absolute fortune, that time it was Hermes that were handing the UK side of the couriering, package came in on time, passed through customs okay, got to Hermes main hub for incoming goods from abroad, then did not move for 2 days, then the tracking record was removed, turned out that it had been returned to my supplier in China who was no longer interested in that sort of nonsense,  so I needed to find another supplier in China again - well ebay found another seller, and it worked out okay that time.