[s-cars] shocks

[Taka Mizutani]

Vincent-
No offense, but your pushing on the shock is not an accurate measure of
damping ability.

The only way to really know if the shock is working properly is to take a
shock dyno curve
of the shock when it was brand-new and compare that to the dyno curve of the
shock after being
used for 158k miles.

Taka


On 3/30/07, Vincent Frégeac <s.sikss at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Other Audi's shocks doesn't last as long as urS', by far. On my '86 CGT,
> the
> first shock died around 90Kmiles and there was no doubt it was dead,
> either
> when on the car or out. On my '90 90Q20V, they lasted - or I endured them
> -
> a bit longer but when they went out, with around 110Kmiles on them, both
> were obviously dead.
>
> But the shocks I took out of the S-Bitch, with 158K potholed miles, still
> had a lot of damping, though me pushing on the shocks is not the most
> precise measurement tool, and the car was finally more confortable with a
> better handling with the 158Kmiles old shocks than with the new TurboGas.
> Too bad I throw the original shocks away before test driving the new ones.
> Now, the shocks may have been changed by the P.O. but, as the car had only
> 70Kmiles when I bought it, there's little chance shocks were not original.
>
>