50,000 mile questions

[ZBAZ]

I recently feel and hear the passenger side shock not working spooth over bumps and other rough road area. Like manhole covers or bumps in the road and I think its time to replace the OEM shocks. I am not going to nor do I have the extra funds at this time to do Tein, Eiback, H&R Coil overs. I think for right now I am going to do something like KONI's or Tokico D-Spec Series Adjustable Shocks. I just cant fork our $1500 for some performance shock but under $750.00 is with in my reach right now. What do you guys think or reccommend? What would you do?

[evildky]

when your shocks go bad you get extra bounce, if your experiencing some noise or aditional movement the problem might be a ball joint or tie rod end, or many other parts, might want to have a look before shelling out all your cash on shocks, and if you do upgrade shocks Tokiko makes good parts, I ran them on my Z31 and about to put them on my S30, Koni's can be worth the extra but be sure you get the ones you want, their race inserts are rebuildable and available in either single or double adjustable which are rebuildable and revalvable, and the classic's suck but I doubt they offer the classic's for the Z33

[ZBAZ]

EVILDKY

Do you think I should go to a tire place and have them look at the upper / lower ball joints, suspension and tie rods? it seems to me at 50,000 miles that would be pre mature or am I way off base?

[ZBAZ]

Took my own advice and went to Les Schwab to see if they could figure out the noise I was hear. Glad I did because the 2 bolts holding my caliper on were gone and it was not a broken shock like I suspect or ball joints, tie rods or stabilizer bars but the bolts were accually gone!!!

[evildky]

good thing you had it looked at, and yeah well 50k would have been premature failure for a strut as well unless your racing every weekend