wenguin wrote:.
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To be honest, no noticeable noises.
115k miles, passed MOT last year fine no advisories, standard wheels.
The replacement OEM non-bilstein shocks are like
£360 form GTSChris, and almost double that for bilsteins.
I guess I can just wait out someone breaking a car with comparatively newish struts?
Mine was the same.
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with less than 90,000 miles on the clock.
Usually I only change shocks when one starts leaking or fails an MOT.
As it is a gradual degradation in performance over many years I guess people don't notice it as it is what they are used to, it passes the MOT, and the car still get them A to B ok.
With this car I changed the shocks early as I had another MR2
(200,000+ miles on the clock) with fresher
(half-life) stock suspension for direct comparison and that that handled way better in spirited driving.
I noticed the handling difference when I test drove the car before buying it.
I initially put it down to cheaper tyres and the tracking was out.
I did not even think it could be tired shocks as well as they seemed firm when I tried to push down on them.
If you are selling the car in a year there is probably no point doing it as you wont get your money back when you sell it.
On the other hand if it keeps you out of a hedge they will be worth it!
(I once had to swerve in and out of a bus stop at 40mph in a 40mph limit to avoid a driver
(that must have been on drugs) that suddenly decided to do an impossible overtake of the 3 cars in front of them with me coming the other way, so I was very happy to have such a good handling car!)
If the rest of the suspension is tight, the only other thing that I have noticed make a difference is replacing the cancer bars if they have rusted through
(the rear suspension lower bracing bars).
These are cheap and easy to remove and bolt on.
