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Originally Posted by speeder
But you don’t have to settle for either one. Good dampners, (shocks), are engineered to provide both a nice if firm ride and great performance. And the really good ones, like Bilstein and Koni, spent the extra R&D $$ to tailor each product to the individual vehicle.
And Bilsteins do wear out, I just replaced the rears on my MB w124 sedan. The old ones still had strong compression but no rebound. Shocks are super easy to test off of the car, just put them on the ground and compress them and watch them rebound a few times. Shocks that are completely blown out will have no action whatsoever but other ones can still tell a tale. It’s not rocket science.
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I guess I was taking about "firm" then. I had a Miata with bowings and aftermarket springs that the boosters were supposed to be good with. The ride was firm. I drove a cat once with no shocks and bad shocks. I've seen pretty folks driving a car with bad shocks. Weak/bad shocks result in a bouncy vehicle. My old Miata want bouncy at all.