Ford Fiesta - Shock absorbers

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Mon 3 Jan 2011 20:46
Ford Fiesta - Shock absorbers - graham3232
Hi,

My 2003 fiesta with 160K on the clock had recently developed (after lots of town driving) a loud knock the rear on speed bumps/potholes and a bouncy ride eminating from the rear. Still on the original shocks, one is visibly leaking oil, so i have bought 2 new ones to replace the rear pair which will hopefully solve my problem and they are an easy DIY fix.

Anyway, I'm sure i saw on TV a few years ago about a garage that had a special ramp like they can do laser wheel alignment on (mine were 3mm out last tyre change btw) but it did a computer test of shock absorber efficiency per wheel by an electronic bounce test and gave a % figure per wheel, anyone haerd of this or a garage that does it? Just after testing the front ones.

Graham.
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Tue 4 Jan 2011 07:55
Ford Fiesta - Shock absorbers - dadbif
All Spanish ITV (Mot) testing stations do this test as standard, the big difference however is that they are merely testing centres, and do not carry out repairs. No ulterior motives finding faults, a far fairer system I think.
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