[Danbo]

Hey all, does anyone know if these snorkels are any good? If anyone knows anything about them please share. What are some other affordable snorkel brands?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Snorkel-Kit-Suz ... a5&vxp=mtr

Thanks people

[Heideisadog]

I bought a safari snorkel just because its tried and tested and it works with easy instal. Though it isnt $100 like that one...
2 problems that my mate had who bought something similar was the fitting template it comes with is shitty and we had to wing it a fair bit, and that the fitments and mountings are not quite perfect and it gets a really deep rattle/shake.
Though now it is fitted it does exactly what it needs to do as a snorkel.

Thomas

[Danbo]

Cheers for the help, yeah a safari snorkel is much better but they're expensive. I guess with this one it is alright because it works but in terms of quality, you get what you pay for kinda thing.

[Heideisadog]

Danbo wrote:

I guess with this one it is alright because it works but in terms of quality, you get what you pay for kinda thing.

Yeah exactly, should do exactly what its made for. Plus if it breaks you can buy 3 more and it still comes out cheaper then a safari snorkel.

[Danbo]

That's good haha. Just as long as it doesn't break in the water and take a big mouthful. I've gotta do a few things since the jimny is all stock, putting diff breathers, snorkel, barwork. One thing I noticed, there is no recovery points. I've been doing my research and narrowed it down to getting a towbar and hitch block, or buying a 4wd recovery tow hook from supercheap auto and bolting it to the chassis. I've heard this can rip the chassis and I've also heard that it's a good recovery point, any ideas on this one?

[1992suzukivitara]

I had no problem with my eBay snorkel only fitting it was a pain it's pretty tough when I rolled my vitara it landed on the snorkel and no damage only a few scratches... I'd buy another one just take your time fitting it as it will be good make sure you use a lot of silicone on all fittings

[shakes]

Possibly got the same chinese one on my XJ.

It's what you expect. bolts fittings etc all good, template was no issues at all (no worse than safari ones i've used)

The problem is it's not quite 100% perfect, ie it doesnt sit exactly square to the gaurd the whole way along, the bracket on the A pillar needed to be slightly crooked... you only spot it when looking very close however.

Pretty happy... for the $450 difference to a brand name I'm happy.

[Danbo]

Yeah I think this might be the way to go for the price of it,
Cheers

[suzijnr]

i bought a ebay snorkel and found that they are pretty good compared to safari, working in the 4wd industry the ebay snorkel is good value for money and i have had no dramas yet, besides the template can be dicky but thats an easy fix when lining up

[shep]

Don't use silicon when fitting a snorkle as it always fails, use sickaflex.

Personally I would buy a brand name snorkle or build one out of pipe, bugger relying on something that will prob deteriorate in UV and get brittle.

[1992suzukivitara]

shep wrote:

Don't use silicon when fitting a snorkle as it always fails, use sickaflex.

Personally I would buy a brand name snorkle or build one out of pipe, bugger relying on something that will prob deteriorate in UV and get brittle.

Yeah what he said sickaflex it's really good stuff

[1992suzukivitara]

shep wrote:

Don't use silicon when fitting a snorkle as it always fails, use sickaflex.

Personally I would buy a brand name snorkle or build one out of pipe, bugger relying on something that will prob deteriorate in UV and get brittle.

Yeah what he said sickaflex it's really good stuff

[Danbo]

It should do the trick for a while and then if it does eventually wear out, there's always the option of buying another ebay one or just to build one myself

[Gwagensteve]

Wear out? What if it splits somewhere not immediately obvious and kills your motor? What if you want to replace it with a pipe or name brand snorkel and have to buy and paint a new guard because the hole is in the wrong spot?

I think snorkels are pointless for most cars/drivers, but in the rare case you do actually need one, you'd hope you don't need to replace it any time soon, and/or the guard it's bolted to.