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From: jj@rabbit.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: shocks and shifting
Message-ID: <1684@rabbit.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 12-Jul-83 16:24:56 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 12 16:24:56 1983
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Buy the shocks that match your driving style and the variety of road 
surface that you have to drive on.  I've never heard of air-struts,
but that doesn't mean that they don't exist.  My Horizon went to 
82K without needing shocks, struts, c-v joints, or anything else involving
suspension work.  In that time, I wore out three sets of front tires, and
!one! set of rear tires (which were on the car at trade-in).

Shift when the engine starts lugging.  Given frequent oil changes,
about every 4K miles or so, the high cylinder pressures caused by
severe lugging are much more destructive than high rpm's (to a point,
of course, but the torque range of a reasonably adjusted Omni/Horizon
is wide enough to match one or the other gear).  

I traded in my Horizon (total of 1 fuel pump and standard mantenence
through its whole life) for an Omni, currently at 22K, and thus
far working the same way.  With the custom seats (cloth) the interior
is more comfortable than any *B*I*G* American car, it's much easier
to drive long distances (goes where you point it, not where it wants to
go), and much more fuel-effecient.

Just think.  Buy a SMALL car, drive it in a responsible manner (keeping
up with the 65mph traffic, out of the road of trucks, etc), and then you too
can feel 
	BETTER THAN MOST!!

rabbit!jj (better than the average Republican)