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Re: Replaced Rear Shocks....Were They OK? Posted by SWEDECAR [Email] (#112) [Profile/Gallery] (more from SWEDECAR) on Sun, 8 Mar 2009 18:14:48 In Reply to: Replaced Rear Shocks....Were They OK?, Joe [Profile/Gallery] , Sun, 8 Mar 2009 17:52:28 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
What you cannot recreate on the ground and even by bouncing the car up and down is the sharp jarring motion of a pot hole or uneven surface where the shock has to work really fast.
Shocks always allow some fluid to leak out over years and the 9-5 rear shocks do it more than many others. This leaves a small or larger air gap inside the shock absorber and the tire is allowed to bounce up and down without you really knowing it.
This in turn leads to uneven wear on the tire (scalloping).
On some cars sometimes it is possible to hear a tock, tock noise over bumps that cannot be traced to any other worn suspension parts. That noise is coming from when the dampener device is moving back and forth in that air gap.
So don't sweat it, at 178K miles it is not lost money to replace the shocks.
Anders
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