Hi all,

 

There are a couple of superb 3.6 cars that I'm looking at, one around 70k and one at 130k. Both are on the original suspension as far as reciepts go, 130k on the same dampers seems a looooong time to me, but I don't know much about the dampers that are used, I can only see bilstein parts when I'm searching online...

 

How long do they usually last and what brand are they? Need to establish cost to replace all corners.

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Matt

My Superb is about to hit 160,000 miles and apart from a pair of rear springs (one corroded / snapped) and a pair of rear bump stops (common Skoda weakness) everything else is original.

 

It's a 2.0 diesel not a 3.6 V6 petrol, but she still handles well. Sure the front suspension creaks every so often over steep speed humps but no misting on the shocks, clunks or knocks.

 

My car does its fair share of back road / B road dashes too, so its not like its sat on the motorway all its life.

Do you know what kind of roads car was driven on? You can quickly kill any suspension if you drive like a maniac on country roads and do high mileage on motorways. 

I had my dampers checked at 330 000 km (206 k miles) service and they were completely ok.

Rear springs are common 
Am on my third pair
shocks doing there job great still 125000

Rear springs - yes. I am on third set too, but this time I had rough road spring set istalled. Little more stiff, but can carry much more load.

Springs are not expensive to change actually. So are dampers.

I'm at 190,000kms and have only had the rear shocks replaced 9att approx. 100,000kms) , springs are all original (factory sports-lowered suspension) and I have the suspension tested every couple of years. 170TDI combi.