Proper Car Suspension equals Smooth Riding
A car’s smooth running and functioning is dependent on many systems. One such system is Car Suspension. It is due to this suspension system that a car can handle bumps, dips during a drive. This suspension system mainly helps in stabilizing and controlling a vehicle.
A car’s suspension system consists of the following parts:
• Tyres (the only part of suspension that is in contact with the road)
• Coil Springs (they are used to absorb the impact when the car hits a bump)
• Shock Absorbers (they support the coil springs to further dampen the impact of a bump or pothole
that the car runs over)
• Rods or Linkages (they work to link various part of the car’s suspension system in place)
• Joints/Bushings/Bearings (they allow suspension components to make the necessary sliding actions in the desired manner)
Shocks and struts are critical for your car’s suspension system to function effectively. They are designed to absorb and dampen effect of road unevenness (thereby giving you a relatively smoother ride than what you would have in their absence).
Along with this, they also ensure that your car tyres stay connected to the road. Without this, a vehicle would keep bouncing up and down while driving and this could make driving the car difficult and unsafe.
You need to get your car suspension inspected if:
• You are experiencing an unusually rough ride on bumpy roads – a minor bump is making your car bounce
• Your car sits low or nosedives, causing a clunking or dipping noise each time you drive over a bump or turn a corner
• Your shocks are leaking fluid, causing them to look oily or greasy (you can experience difficulty in handling the car, particularly while braking, and your tyres will also have lesser grip on the road)
In general, you would need to replace the shocks and struts of your car suspension anywhere between 80,000-1,60,000 km. The life of the shocks and struts is usually dependent on the quality of the roads you drive on.
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