11th March 2007

How to check struts by your own

struts Struts’ condition effects on everything which is connected with cars. Uneven road coat makes wheels vibrate. And if the struts are bad in quality, it easily gets into a wide response and the wheel jumps aside highly from the surface. One more source of wheels’ and suspension’s vibration is wrong wheel’s balance.

Or, for example, the wheel is balanced, but it jogs because of e.g. curved shape after the beat, blister, stuck mud, etc. The conclusion is that bad dampers lead to worsen car speeding up, to problems with smoothness, with turnings, with going up and down, in short, everything that can lead to the accident due to increased vibration of wheel’s sliding.

Checking struts by one’s own is very simple and easy. It is enough to have a slight examination in order to see if there are some liquid bruises at struts’ body, and then rock the car intensively: each corner by order, pushing the fender or bumper three or four times. After that the vehicle body should make just one reflexive movement to rated transmission level. If the car rocks more or the distinct knocks are heard, the struts can be considered defective and it is advised to change them.

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  1. On May 6th, 2007, Nigel said:

    Quite simply Aston Martin, Bentley, Ferrari and many other quality manufacturers have never build front wheel drive cars.

    Look in Formula I; are there any FWD cars?

    FWD has it’s merits, but RWD is superior in quality and performance cars.

  2. 1 On November 12th, 2007, Claudiu said:

    WRONG WRONG WRONG!!!
    Not a good way to start a reply but this way it is noticed.
    Now why? Because you cannot take a car that easy. It had a mass/mass distribution, a power, a torque, etc.
    If your car is heavy and underpowered (eg. BMW 318) you wont be able to skid the tires, so you end up with
    a heavy pig, not a light hornet. Take a look at WTCC where the norm is a 2 liters sedans like BMW, Alfa Romeo,
    Seat, Chevrolet etc. And as I know Alfa won because the power/weight ratio didn’t add enough advantage to
    the RearWheelDrive BMW’s. And also I suspect that not more than 1 person in 1000 knows the hell/toe technique.
    Therefore the best way is the way it is, the engineers from VW, BMW, Honda etc. didn’t receive their diploma
    for nothing, they know best what works better for a specific car.

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