Ive got a 94 accord ex.

Im assuming the struts bad but ive never diagnosed a strut or replaced one but before I do I wanna make its really bad.

When Im driving lets say above 65 mph or so and making a wide turn like an off ramp of some sort on the interstate or making a quick turn going 45mph the back end almost seems to just fall up and down. It feels like the backend is going to slip. It just kind of bounces up and down in the back.

This is kinda hard to explain if you drove it you would realized how unsafe it feels.

Any Insite would be helpful

Thanks
-Dan

 

Quick Test:
Park the car, get out and try to bounce the rear of the car several times. If it makes any attempt to keep bouncing after you've stopped pushing down/up, replace the rear strut/shocks. It should stop moving within 1 or 2 ossilations.

P

 

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Park the car, get out and try to bounce the rear of the car several times. If it makes any attempt to keep bouncing after you've stopped pushing down/up, replace the rear strut/shocks. It should stop moving within 1 or 2 ossilations.

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I'll give that a try when I get home tonight. But lets say this test tells me there OK. Does anybody have any ideas of why this this is bounceing? There is no noiseing or rattleing of the supension of any kind. Its not lowered and straight stock at this point.

The person before me had the car pretty much slammed using the oem struts (The same struts that are on the car now). Thats why im assuming the struts are junk.


-Dan

 

they are probably blown... the valving inside gets trashed (from being lowered) so thats why it is not dampening (or at least thats what it sounds like from your description).

I have blown a set of oe struts with lowering springs and the ride was similar to what you describe... although I changed mine as soon as I started feeling the ride was getting rough, definately not to up to par.

 

well Reguardless the supsenion is going to have to come apart. So I can just compress the strut out of the car and see how fast it rebounds. I just hope that the lower controll arm bolt isn't to much of a pain in the *** to get out.

-Dan

 

Prepare for a liberal amount of *&^$((^ during the "proceedure, but it shouldn't be too bad Break out the penetrating oil.....

 

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