broken front shock

[fletcher23]

would a knackered front shock make the car sit lower on one side? noticed yesterday that drivers front sits lower than other side,it only happend in the last few days? the lowering springs look fine but then again i did just have a quick look. any help would be great as i dont want to take it to garage and be charged a fortune

[fletcher23]

bump......

[raunchz]

Not really. I'd go with something like spring/top mount setup

[fletcher23]

thanks for the reply mate, the spring is fine just had a look, how much would i be looking at to get it fixed if it was the top mounts

[chipeyedai]

sometimes when the shock gone they knock

[fletcher23]

It is knocking mate ive replaced drop link and ball joint and still knocking.

[Gareth_R]

i had a leaking front shock once that caused the front to sit lower on one side

[LSOfreak]

i thought it would sit lower. as when there knackered they dont 'rebound'

[VTRelite]

do the bounce test. Bounce the corner a couple of times then let it do it on its own. If the shocker has failed then it will go up and down a lot more frequently than a shocker that is working

[raunchz]

The springs are naturally going to want to push the bottom and top spring pans apart - it's the damper that's stopping this happen.

So if the damper had no oil in it for example, then the spring would still want to push the top and bottom pans apart.

The only situation where a damper would cause one side to be lower was if the damper in the higher side had broke so the distance between the top mount and the damper shaft/body point increased, maybe some sort of internal stop failed or something? I'm only guessing here but I would really doubt that a bad damper would compress with enough force to counter the spring wanting to expand itself. Willing to be proved wrong though.

Sounds like the best course of action is to remove both struts and check them over.