Re: Shocks


"pws" <pwshelton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Lanny Chambers wrote:

The dealer is ignorant about Miatas, not unusual at all. Leakage is not
the only mode of failure, nor even a common one. I'll bet they passed
someone's bumper bounce test, too. You know better, though...better than
to let a dealer mess with the suspension! :-)

I replaced a set with 120,000+ miles on them. They were leak-free and they
compressed and rebounded, but the new shocks made a huge difference,
shocking even.....

The new shocks were the KYB adjuatables, but I am sure that even using OEM
shocks would make an improvement after 10 years and 100,000 miles.

I replaced the shocks on my last Miata at 22,000 miles with Konis and the
improvement was very noticeable even at that mileage.

I immediately followed that with JR sways, some new RE-71's and the
Lanny-alignment and it suddenly became the most controllable car I had
ever owned.

Pat

Given that the dealer wanted $1100 for the job including $123 per shock (now
that's shocking) and I can get 4 KYB GR-2's which are probably better than
the OEM shocks, for around $210 for all 4 on E-bay, it was an easy decision
to wait.


.

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