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Symptoms of Bad shocks
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sventastic
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Re: Symptoms of Bad shocks
My experience with original struts on two different P80s at 250,000km is that they ride very harsh over road imperfections, even 1" dips like for manhole covers are pretty jarring.
1996 854R | M56H | 16T | 248k
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scot850
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Re: Symptoms of Bad shocks
I know shipping is a bear to Canada, but FCP has a reasonable price on a pair of Sachs struts and spring seats and then the lifetime warranty. Your friends at Rock Auto have some shocks there including front and rear Sachs shocks/struts.
Neil.
Neil.
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erikv11
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Re: Symptoms of Bad shocks
Pull the carpet up and look at the shock mounts, it is very common for these to be broken. Leads to teeth-jarring ride (even more than usual).
'95 854 T5-R || m4.4 || 185k
'96 855 NA || 140k
'98 V70 || T5 tune-injectors-turbo, LPT engine || 275k
'06 S60 R || 145k
gone: '96 NA 850 210k, '98 NA V70 182k, '98 NA S70 174k
'96 855 NA || 140k
'98 V70 || T5 tune-injectors-turbo, LPT engine || 275k
'06 S60 R || 145k
gone: '96 NA 850 210k, '98 NA V70 182k, '98 NA S70 174k