scary moment

[mac123yre]

Had a bit of a do with me 450, the rear shock snapped and the spring popped through the rear parcel shelf, the rear of the car dropped to the floor, lucky at only 15mph.

Is this common as the angle of the shocks seem to extreme

[scotty_d]

Glad to hear your Ok not read this happing on here before .

[Chimpafrolic]

Lucky escape Alan, glad you are OK.

What make are your dampers?

[S7Paul]

Not the first time it's happened...............

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

Luckily neither of you were travelling quickly at the time. Wouldn't want to think about the implications of this happening at 100+

[Alexdaredevilz]

Were you going over a speed bump? pot hole?

Its slightly worrying that this has happened to a few owners?

Also got any pics?

[Pacman1972]

Potty Full!!! That is scary

What shocks have you got? - About to change mine.

[mac123yre]

Not sure of the shocks but this also happened to the chap that had the car before me, I wondered if the angle of the shocks is the problem, will give Steve heath a ring to see if there is a fix.

[mac123yre]

Having now replaced the snapped shock on the drivers side, I started doing the one on the passenger side and to my horror this one had also snapped, at some point in the past and some nutcase had welded it back together, this problem must be a common one on this type of car????

[Cedar]

Welded back together?? Holy s**t!

[Barreti]

Chuffing hell fire, some people really don't have the sense they were born with do they.

Scary, scary st out there sometimes.

[davep]

MOT testers have been doing their job then! Welded piston rod on a shock absorber, I've heard it all now.

[taylormj4]

This happened to me too. Again at very low speed, bumpy road, driver and passenger.
Rear N/S shock snapped, luckily no penetration through the body. Car wheelarch dropped onto the tyre.
Original shocks as far as I can tell. No prior warning apart from a squeak about 2 secs before it snapped - not enough time to react.

Matt

[jim.2007]

happened twice to me, avo? bilsteins mates say no probs, is it a prob with avo not accounting for side ways stress?? crap photo sorry, looks gangsta though if you could of seen it!

[AlexanderV8]

Bugger, I'm beginning to lose my ability to understand the English language. Must be getting old .

[BliarOut]

Actually I think someone has just passed out with their forehead on the keyboard...

[AlexanderV8]

The forming of one or two actual words is probably coincidental but would certainly explain the lack of any scanning or meaning.

[jim.2007]

And who's that Tony?

[BliarOut]

Hang on, capitalisation and punctuation, we may have been wrong

[AlexanderV8]

Possible explanations:
1). Sobered up suddenly.
2). Rascal in the house posting gibberish for a laugh at real username owner's expense.
3). Poor attempt at trolling.

Who is Tony though?

[jim.2007]

Sorry, this is what happened on a 6month old pair of avo's, accelerating on a country road and this was the result, luckily it was on a straight road, someone else i know has had the trouble with avo, i have other friends who have bilsteins on there Chims and have had no problem.