Suspensions.
Your suspension system does more than make your ride smoother! In fact, it’s a key component of driving safety, and without it your tyres and brakes won’t work as well.
When was the last time you had your suspension checked? Visit Suncoast Car Care in Maroochydore today to ensure that your car’s suspension doesn’t let you down.
Your Suspension System - How Does It Work?
Your car’s suspension system allows you to ride relatively undisturbed while travelling over rough roads. It also allows your vehicle to corner with minimum roll or sway, stop with a minimum of brake dive, and accelerate with a minimum of acceleration squat. This dynamic control keeps the tyres in contact with the road. The components of your car’s suspension system perform six basic functions:
- Maintain correct vehicle ride height.
- Reduce the effects of shock forces.
- Maintain correct wheel alignment.
- Support vehicle weight.
- Keep the tyres in contact with the road.
- Control the vehicle's direction of travel.
However, to ensure this happens, all of the suspension components, both front and rear, must be in good working condition.
Components Of Your Suspension System.
Your car’s suspension system is made up of struts, shock absorbers, springs and tyres.
Shocks and struts are important for your driving safety. Their function is to keep the tyres on the road by controlling spring and suspension movements and by maintaining a vertical load on the tyres.
Under normal driving conditions, the shocks on your car ‘stroke’ over one thousand times per kilometre. As a result, shock absorbers wear out quite quickly. You should get them checked every 20,000 kilometres just to be safe.
The springs support the weight of your vehicle, acting as a flexible link allowing the frame and body to ride relatively undisturbed while the tyres and suspension follow the road.
The Dangers Of Worn Shocks
It only takes one worn shock absorber in your car to compromise your safety. Your braking distance can be increased by two metres, travelling at 50kmh, when your shock absorbers aren’t working properly. This can cause a great deal of damage to your car. Worn shocks may lead to:
- Excessive tyre bounce.
- Poor tyre to road contact.
- Reduced suspension control.
- Premature tyre wear.
- Reduced handling and tyre performance.
- Noise and suspension vibration.
As an Authorised Fulcrum Suspension Dealership, Suncoast Car Care specialise in tailoring suspension systems to the customers requirements and where a customers application does not suit any standard kit, simply contact us for the right advice.
Suncoast Car Care prides itself on over 30 years experience in providing suspension and steering solutions for a range of passenger, 4WD and commercial vehicles. As a solutions oriented company, Suncoast Car Care works to improve the ride quality and handling of vehicles by combining quality brands with expert technical knowledge, to ensure you extract the full potential from your vehicle. Suncoast Car Care is committed to providing safe, high quality and extremely durable solutions to help improve the ride quality and handling of almost any vehicle.
As the exclusive Australian distributor of TEIN’s range of High Performance Suspension products, Fulcrum Authorised Dealerships customise TEIN’s advanced engineering to specifically suit Australian vehicles and driving conditions.
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