Re: AVOS Coil-overs = Garbage

["Ian Overholt" <ioverholt@hotmail.com>]

Isn't this the way shocks are supposed to work?  They are dampeners.  The 
spring compresses and then tries to rebound, but the shock pulls against 
that rebound.  I think you should have to pull the shaft out.

Ian Overholt
'88 16v
'78 Sidewinder


>From: A1SCIROCCO@aol.com
>To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: AVOS Coil-overs = Garbage
>Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 20:32:43 EDT
>
>I took off my front coil-overs which are only 2 weeks old to replace the
>spring with a 250lb eibach ers spring.  Well what i discovered was pretty
>distrubing.  If if push the shaft down you get the bubbely blown out shock
>sound and the shaft wont rise at all!  I pushed it down and sat there and
>watched it for at least 15minutes and the damn thing didnt go up at all!
>Anyway i think im going to have a hard time returning these things.  Do you
>think so?  I think that they will say its my fault. Damn AVO'S
>
>Matt
>
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