Does anyone have an approximate /acceptable estimate of how much driving time you have left when your shock absorber starts to go? Again...........

No idea I'm afraid, sorry.

On one hand it could rumble on forever, on the other it could fail at high speed and kill you and everybody else in the car, not to mention the people in the cars that you will hit, and those who crash into the wreckage.

It's up to you really, do you want blood on your hands or have you got some common sense in there somewhere?

It's a bit like asking how long a fish will live out of water - who knows? (but it might die)

GL ALL!!!

DYOR

:)

As above, responsibility must be the overriding concern. After my Sister's business bought a high-mileage Scorpio Estate with tow-bar as a delivery hack, with long trailers often in use, it was like a barge for handling. I told her about the aftermarket poly-bushes for sharpening up handling, and she had a full set fitted, transforming it totally. She now pays a lot more attention to things like brakes and tyres, and advice from trusted mechanics. She gets her money's worth out of the family vehicles, and the business ones, but she has dropped the "country-folks" attitude to not fixing something until it brakes. She smashed a new Renault within a year of her wedding, has been ditches 3 times on little roads carrying her daughters decades ago, resorting to big Volvos for protection, and two of her 3 daughters have had a smash each, on local roads.

My own history of shock-absorbers involves a 1-year-old Renault suffering a stiff shocker due to my driving too fast on a potholed forest track. The dealer dismissed it, so I had a pair of new ones fitted at Motorway Tyres, and the duf one was totally unmovable, explaining the loud bump noises going over road repairs that put both rear wheels under load at once, but only that nearside shocker made a noise. The dealer gave me a credit note for one shocker-job, that more than covered the Gabriels I had fitted. (same factory as Munro's, USA)

I put that towards the 2nd service.

Shockers are as vital as tyre pressures, that is why they fail MoT's if leaky, and will void your car insurance in an accident.

No idea I'm afraid, sorry.

On one hand it could rumble on forever, on the other it could fail at high speed and kill you and everybody else in the car, not to mention the people in the cars that you will hit, and those who crash into the wreckage.

It's up to you really, do you want blood on your hands or have you got some common sense in there somewhere?

It's a bit like asking how long a fish will live out of water - who knows? (but it might die)

GL ALL!!!

DYOR

:)

Thanks for your time...........

Thanks for your time...........

simply when they start to go its time to change