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How come stock shocks never wear out?
Posted by DER [Email] (more from DER) on Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:14:02
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My 2001 9-3 Base has 145,000 miles on it. Original shocks. The wrenches at the dealer keep telling me they are fine. They say that they almost never replace shocks on Saabs -- only if one gets broken. Very rare. That they tend to last the life of the car. My car feels just great, and it is stable at high speed cruising where it spends a lot of its time.
How?? How do they do it? Why is there not not internal mechanical wear?
In my earlier life, starting with cars two generations ago, it was dogma -- good dogma in my experience -- that ordinary OEM shocks were good to 30K, and at 50K one was a fool to have them still on the vehicle. Gas McPherson struts had a longer life, but no one ever suggested that they could go the life of the vehicle.
Thx.
DER
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Posts in this Thread:
- How come stock shocks never wear out?, DER, Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:14:02 <-- Viewing This Message
- Same here - 00 9-3 SE 140k, bill h., Sun, 15 Mar 2009 14:05:58
- My experience too.., Mike Lynch
, Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:23:35 - Re: How come stock shocks never wear out?, William, Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:00:51
- Re: stock shocks, Saabnutt, Fri, 13 Mar 2009 08:30:32
- Re: How come stock shocks never wear out?, charlie, Fri, 13 Mar 2009 07:52:09
- Re: How come stock shocks never wear out?, Darren900, Fri, 13 Mar 2009 07:27:51
- Re: How come stock shocks never wear out?, eric, Fri, 13 Mar 2009 06:50:22
- It's a good thing, Caarma
, Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:47:07
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