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Ride Control Repairs: Keeping Your Customers' Tires Glued to the Road Fresno CA

The basic idea behind any performance suspension system is to keep the tire in contact with the road surface. Like the modern import vehicle, the unsprung weight of the wheel, brake and axle of a modern racing vehicle has been reduced to a minimum. Spring rates have been refined to provide instant response to changes in chassis height.

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Ride Control Repairs: Keeping Your Customers' Tires Glued to the Road

Confused about modern ride control technology? Sometimes looking back into automotive history can put such technology into a more usable framework. A good illustration is how ride control technology evolved from the simple, early-century friction shock absorber to the electronic variable-rate shocks and MacPherson struts currently being installed on late-model imports. When early automobile manufacturers first mated a gasoline engine to what was essentially a buggy chassis, they quickly discovered that the buggy-style suspensions with high percentages of unsprung weight concentrated in the wheels and axles would bounce uncontrollably at anything above horse-drawn speeds. As speeds increased, the need for a spring dampening device or "shock absorber" became apparent and what we now refer to as the "ride control industry" was born.

EARLY RIDE CONTROL TECHNOLOGY
The first shock absorbers were simply pieces of leather or asbestos sandwiched between spring-loaded plates, with the friction body mounted to the chassis and a movable arm attached to the axle. As the suspension moved up and down in relation to the chassis, the friction shock dampened the resulting spring oscillations by converting excessive spring oscillations into heat. Unfortunately, overheating would reduce the efficiency of the friction shock during sustained high-speed driving conditions.

The tubular, oil-filled "airplane" shock absorber, popularly introduced in the 1930s, seemed to offer the best solutio...

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