What Precautions can be taken to take care of your Shock Absorber?

The Shock Absorber, also known as a “damper” helps give you a comfortable ride even when your vehicle goes through bumps and uneven roads. Hence it is extremely important to know how you can take care of your Shock Absorbers. We have also compiled a list of how you can take care of your brake pads. The ways are listed below and are each discussed in detail later:

• Go slowly over bumps/uneven surfaces.
• Try that one wheel shouldn’t go in an uneven surface
• Change boots

Source: Mark Dorman Garage

Go slowly over bumps/uneven surfaces

A very small step but an extremely useful one. Remember your father or driving instructor or whoever taught you how to drive telling you “Beta, agay khadda hai, ahista nikalna gaari”. Yes, that is exactly what we are talking about. Slower speed helps minimize the pressure on the Shock Absorber and increases its life significantly. Start doing this small step today and tell your friends to do it as well.

Try that one wheel shouldn’t go in an uneven surface

So you see an uneven surface ahead of, before reading this you may have thought that if you save one wheel from going in the uneven surface, you’re doing the right thing, but unfortunately this is not true. Actually it’s the exact opposite. If one wheel goes into an uneven surface or a bump, it affects your wheel balancing and the shock absorbers experience an imbalanced surface which increases the wear and tear. This decreases the life of your shock absorbers.

Change boots

One of the parts of your shock absorber is the boots. These may tear(phat jatay hain) with use. Usually people do not care much and think that when they get a new Shock Absorber, the boots will also be changed. The truth actually is that torn boots start destroying the shock absorber rod, hence leading to reduction in your shock absorber’s life. Boots are components which have a very minimal cost but if you don’t care about them, they can make your change your shock absorber at an earlier time frame, which is of course a much higher cost.

As mentioned before, these are very simple steps to take. We just need to put a little bit of effort to make them a part of our daily routine and it is guaranteed that results will show very soon!

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