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Koni Special Activ dampers/struts. Something wrong with them? Fitted with Koni's suggestion of apex springs
Fitted the other day, took an age to come but production date looks like they literally just made them so fair play.
Old volvo V70, had bilstein B6 or b8 (the adjustable ones) on it and a mix of original v70r front springs and some H+R lowered rears (old non progressive wind types). All the old springs were trashed TBH, one front cracked, both rears sagged out from carrying massive weights around in this bus for years (car basically has no rear travel and a thicker ARB than standard).
Drove it around a few days round the city, then torqued everything back up again, all sound, its sat ride height back down to approx where it was before (years ago when old springs weren't snapped/sagged out). Around city its kinda softer than it was on the old stuff, but still crashy and then seems to inexplicably roll around like a whale at some small turns.
Out last night, few hundred miles of faster a roads, no problem, feels solid and doesn't roll around. Another 100 miles of moderate speed very twisty A/B road with very small weight in boot (80 kg), jesus, these shocks literally just do whatever they want. On smoother stuff feels great, on slower speed rough stuff, feels as you would expect, its a rough road. But where its bizarre is when you go through a strong/fast compression and over a crest, back end of car feels like its going stop to stop on the travel and then does about 3 bounces afterwards, feels exactly like a car where the damper is completely blown.
Unpredictable is what I'd call them. Gonna fire them an email asking if this gets any better as they settle in, or maybe they have an air bubble/air lock inside? Feel like the low speed rebound is completely missing. As i'm looking at my old bilsteins' that aren't blown but are a bit worn, and thinking those + the apex springs might actually be quite a lot better.