Poor Handling

[faz]

Originally Posted by Tleong

You can jack up the car and remove your springs. From what I've read on the forum, "if you can push the springs together with your hands, you need to get new ones." Also, even if your springs don't necessarily have to be changed, bilstein springs will make a significant improvement in the handling of the X. I'm sure someone who has installed these can chime in their thoughts.

If you can push a spring together with your hands, your X5 would be bottomed out ALL of the time, riding only a couple of inches above your wheel.

Each 'spring' takes 1/4 of the weight of the truck to compress only a few inches. One must be a very strong person to compress them any reasonable amount using their hands alone.

Perhaps you mean 'shocks'?

[Tleong]

Originally Posted by faz

If you can push a spring together with your hands, your X5 would be bottomed out ALL of the time, riding only a couple of inches above your wheel.

Each 'spring' takes 1/4 of the weight of the truck to compress only a few inches. One must be a very strong person to compress them any reasonable amount using their hands alone.

Perhaps you mean 'shocks'?

Yeah, I was just remembering what I read in a thread a while back. Thanks for the correction

[cslee]

How does one tests the shocks? it's almost impossible to bounce an X5 as the springs are so stiff.