Shocks/Springs

[iain atkinson]

Recent experience with fitting 4 new bilsteins to my 1990 90 20v q is that
the car does now sit higher than before, around 1 inch, the old shocks were
very worn and the new ones considerably harder than oem so i am not
surprised that it sits higher than before.


HTH


iain

-----Original Message-----
From: quattro-admin at audifans.com [mailto:quattro-admin at audifans.com]On
Behalf Of George Selby
Sent: 28 February 2003 04:47
To: quattro at audifans.com
Subject: Re: Shocks/Springs


At 08:00 PM 2/27/03, you wrote:
>I've had people say that replacing the shocks will help with
>this, but I don't understand: shocks will affect the _rate_ at which
>the car will settle, but how can they have any effect at all on how
>_far_ the car will settle?


Most shocks these days are gas-charged, which means they expand all the
time, and do provide some support for the weight of the car.  My 300ZX had
a bad rear camber problem because the rear shocks were so worn, when I
replaced them I got back 2-3 degrees of camber back at rest, and my
excessive tire wear has been curbed.  The car sits about 1" higher in the
back now, too.  As to springs, yes they wear out, at 178K I'd say they were
almost definitely settling a bit.


George Selby
gselby4x4 at earthlink.net

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