Best shocks for a '74 Super Beetle.
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Best shocks for a '74 Super Beetle.
What are the best shocks you've used for a Beetle? I want a smooth ride.
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Re: Best shocks for a '74 Super Beetle.
You are in a different world now, Coil Springs. Coil springs on a light front end have a tendency to sproing boing boing boing where torsion bars merely straighten. You want shocks that are valved to absorb coil spring harmonics as well as vehicle oscillations. Get decent stock cartridges. You will need to remove the struts and compress the spring coils to replace the cartridges. AutoZone has coil spring compressors, but check very closely that they are not too sloppy or defective. A compressed coil spring that lets go can kill you.Sluggo wrote:What are the best shocks you've used for a Beetle? I want a smooth ride.
Colin
(break loose the strut rod retaining nut while the car is still on the ground)
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Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
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