Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site rabbit.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!floyd!whuxlb!pyuxll!eisx!npoiv!npois!hogpc!houxm!mhuxa!mhuxi!mhuxt!eagle!alice!rabbit!jj 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 Article-I.D.: rabbit.1684 Posted: Tue Jul 12 16:24:56 1983 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Jul-83 20:23:28 EDT References: <206@hound.UUCP> Organization: Bell Labs, Murray Hill Lines: 26 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)