#FlatRide #InherentStability #RideQuality
You're driving your car - consider a bump on the road taken at various speeds. The suspension may respond differently at low speed, medium, and higher speed. Can you get a sense of whether you're…
#FlatRide #InherentStability #RideQuality
You're driving your car - consider a bump on the road taken at various speeds. The suspension may respond differently at low speed, medium, and higher speed. Can you get a sense of whether you're being 'jacked down', 'launched up,' or kept neutral? This impact you're feeling matters not just to your body, but to the tires which are keeping you in contact with the ground. Your body is very wise and knows what's good for it when it comes to vibration and harshness. Listen to it!
Most suspensions have shock absorbers ('dampers') that are tuned to 'jack down'. This means they have excessive amounts of reboun force which keeps the damper from extending after a bump. This reduces the available room for the suspension to move on the next bump and ultimately causes you to 'bottom out' on the bump stop.
Jacking down is one way you can experience worsened comfort and reduced grip. Lots of rebound damping can 'feel sporty' but the tires (and your body!) are less happy than they would be with a more neutral behavior.
The opposite side of this equation is excessive compression damping which causes the car to 'launch up' as the shock doesn't want to compress easily and the whole vehicle is 'launched' up as a result. This is also bad for comfort and tire grip. Some vehicles can have either too much rebound, too much compression, or both - depending on the velocity the damper is moving at.
It can be challenging to understand exactly what's going on but my goal is to help you tune into your body to sense what's happening with your suspension so you can decide how you'd want to improve the ride to get the best results.
If you have an adjustable shock or strut, I suggest using a softer setting, make sure you are using spring rates that create Flat Ride (which allows you to use less damping since Flat Ride creates Fast Settling response and an inherent degree of stability in your vehicle suspension).
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