conehead
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94 940t wagon. B6s all around, ipd front and rear sways, upper strut brace and lower chassis brace (from 960?).
Anyone else feel like B6s are just too rough? On nice roads with moderate/average bumps and potholes, it handles great, but on rougher roads I feel like I'm shaking all the bolts loose. Specifically a slight clunking/bottoming out jarring sensation that mainly happens when driving on washboardy pa roads and cement bridge dividers etc. I know they're supposed to be stiffer, but God damn I can't imagine everyone having the same experience as me and still touting these as being the bees knees.
I'm fairly certain that the rest of my suspension is in good order;
When I did the shocks, I also did strut mount and bearing, ball joints, outer tie rod ends and poly control arm bushings. I've double and triple checked my gland nuts, which I am fairly certain are as tight as can be using a pipe wrench and channel locks
Old sway bar bushings wouldn't cause such a sensation, would they? Cause that and inner tie rods are the only things I haven't done in the front.
Is this just how B6s are?
Id love to hear from those of you that have or have had these shocks, and what your thoughts were, where did you drive them etc.
And for the record, I have read as many threads on this as I could find, some of which had helpful clues, but nothing concrete (and most of what I found is several years old and I'm wondering if perhaps the quality of these shocks may have deteriorated over the years and even out of the box they might not be what the were 10/15 years ago
Anyone else feel like B6s are just too rough? On nice roads with moderate/average bumps and potholes, it handles great, but on rougher roads I feel like I'm shaking all the bolts loose. Specifically a slight clunking/bottoming out jarring sensation that mainly happens when driving on washboardy pa roads and cement bridge dividers etc. I know they're supposed to be stiffer, but God damn I can't imagine everyone having the same experience as me and still touting these as being the bees knees.
I'm fairly certain that the rest of my suspension is in good order;
When I did the shocks, I also did strut mount and bearing, ball joints, outer tie rod ends and poly control arm bushings. I've double and triple checked my gland nuts, which I am fairly certain are as tight as can be using a pipe wrench and channel locks
Old sway bar bushings wouldn't cause such a sensation, would they? Cause that and inner tie rods are the only things I haven't done in the front.
Is this just how B6s are?
Id love to hear from those of you that have or have had these shocks, and what your thoughts were, where did you drive them etc.
And for the record, I have read as many threads on this as I could find, some of which had helpful clues, but nothing concrete (and most of what I found is several years old and I'm wondering if perhaps the quality of these shocks may have deteriorated over the years and even out of the box they might not be what the were 10/15 years ago
