I ask because we all know there the ****. I have GC/KONI yellow set up on my DC the car is DUMPED im eating 15"s. I figured to help keep from bottoming out the shock im riding FULL stiffness in the front, and about a quarter turn out in the rear. I dont really feel like its bottoming out but could if a big bump came around. im gonna order the extended tops for the front but i have to wait a week or two. I have been searching but cant find a thread with anyone blowing a KONI yellow so i guess they must be pretty tough huh?

 

Adjusting a Koni won't affect bottoming out, as they only adjust rebound and not bump.

I've never heard of anyone blowing one either.

 

What are your spring rates OP?

 

I have sold a set to my buddy used he got them after 60,000 miles of use and put about 70-80k more on them and still going and we beat the hell out them all street mileage and slamming and raising. This was used with skunk2 coilovers and till this day was the best set-up I have ever ran.

 

170K miles on my Koni Sport shocks and they're still working great.

But if you bottom them out all the time they can certainly blow out like any other shock. Do you have proper bump stops in place? Are your spring rates stiff enough for your "slammed" ride height? If one or both of these is not true, then you could have very well blown one or more of the shocks, and the Koni warranty will not cover that.

*edit* also if you're eating tires as you say, you need to get the toe adjusted via a 4-wheel alignment.

 

hahaha sorry i meant eating them with my fenders, as in super tucked. Im have learned over the last 8 years that as long as your toe is good, camber isnt a problem. I just thopught if they were really stiff it would be harder to push the piston to full bottom. And no bumpstops whatsoever, if i had any i htink the car would be sitting on bumpstops, when i drive i can cut the wheel causing body roll or that "smooth" harsh suspension travel on a wavey highway and the suspension travels nicley with no bottoming out. I just worry about hard bumps. I only worry cause ive never owned a suspension like this, I ran the Apex'i ExV for years and not have adjustable lowers was one thing i worried about. I hope to find a welder at work here soon and make some extended top hats. Spring rates im not sure i bought them 2 months old off a buddy before he left for the military, I didnt look at the spring itself to see.

 

Well to you for not running bumpstops. Your shocks are probably blown and the warranty will not cover it.

And yeah, the Koni adjusters affect rebound damping only (when the piston comes back up). Compression damping remains the same throughout the adjustment range.

 

shocks are not blown, they work perfect, i couldnt run bumpstops at this ride height even if i wanted to, even cut ones. If they cant last untill i get top hats made up then o well i shouldn't have bought a non adjustable shock i guess. I just wanted to see if anyone has blown one. Ive run alot of suspensions without bumpstops and never blown a shock so we'll see.

 

If you're so low you don't have room for bumpstops on the shaft, that means you've got maybe 1 inch of suspension travel, which IS NOT enough to keep the shocks from bottoming out internally. If your shocks aren't blown now, then you're DAMN lucky.

 

if he has a camber kit, then the UCA will hit before the shock bottoms out.