sagging avant rear

[Larry C Leung]

As a general note, shocks do not affect ride height, nor
STEADY STATE spring rates. A heavily charged gas 
shock may slightly raise the unladen static ride height
of a car, but in actual operation, the slight spring rate 
of the gas charge is essentially negligible. So the time
of installation of the shocks had no bearing, as Konstantin 
noted, as to correcting of the sagging avant rear end. Sounds
like the bushings collapse with age (now where have we
seen that before on type 44's?).

LL - NY

On Wed, 08 Sep 2004, kbogach at comcast.net wrote:
> Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 21:39:35 -0400
> From: kbogach at comcast.net
> Subject: Re: sagging avant rear
> To: LawyerKG at co.laplata.co.us
> Cc: quattro at audifans.com
> Message-ID: <413FB457.5020204 at comcast.net>
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> springs never go bad  from normal usage.   We did not take into 
> account 
> the case when you drive with 1/2 tone of  stuff  every day.   No 
> sagging 
> observed for the past 3 years.   I also put  havy duty Bilsteins.  
> Not 
> that is matters.   I  put them a month later after sagging was 
> gone.
> 
> Konstantin.
> 
>