Re: Koni returns

["Martin Pajak" <quattro@rogerswave.ca>]

> Ya'know why?   'Cause they've replaced two billion parts that were ruined
> by being installed in lowered cars.  This is MY THEORY, not theirs.
> I think they saw alot of parts come back after the slamming craze took
> place.  They had to do something.  The cars are too low,(pick up almost any
> mag, -2.5"s is the norm)  they use up all their travel and often the rubber
> suspension snubbers are cut down to try to get the owner some travel.  The
> struts and shocks bottom out inside. Hell they've got to!  They were never
> designed to be run like this.

How are they going to prove that you had the shocks in a lowered car
by looking at your reciept?

> FWIW, the ONLY Konis I've seen fail on the XR4s are on cars that were
> lowered 1.5"s or more.  And many had the Eibach springs. The cars with
> Konis and my NSPS springs have never failed a Koni.  I've had Koni reds and
> yellows on Xrs. I've got 80k iles on the yellows on that car now.

Wouldn't Koni assume that performance shocks will be put on along 
with lowering springs?  That's how most of them are installed anyways.

Cheers
 

Martin Pajak
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