Petah

iTrader: (1)

I have a set of TEIN RAs. The ride seems to very "bouncy". The suspension are 1 year old but has only been driven 2K miles. Driving on the streets, i set the shocks to full soft and it bounces alot. Kind of like a car lowered too much on stock shocks. Does anyone have experience with RAs? Thanks.

woodog

Set them at full stiff and see if it feels the same.
If it does, then it's probably blown.

I doubt that it is tho with only 2000 miles.

EagleR

The bounce could be because they are way to soft setting...stiffen them...what r the spring rates?

Petah

iTrader: (1)

Sorry...checked it out tonight and it appears that i was on full stiff (fully cranked clockwise) and not full soft. The ride at full soft is better now. But why would it bounce so badly on full stiff?? Even on full stiff, it shouldn't bounce....right? Spring rates are 14k/f and 10k/r.

EagleR

The rebound should be prtetty stiff, are these shocks independently adjustable for bound and rebound? There would be a BIG initial jolt w/ those rates and full stiff, but it should not contiue to bounce up and down on full stiff, unless they r independently adj and u have bound on full stiff and rebound on soft....
sorry if names or sp is incorrect but u get the idea....

woodog

it's not that you're bouncing.
you're just feeling all the imperfections on the road.