Roger, thanks for the reply.
By Struts is struts I meant they all work in fundamentally the same way. They require a great deal of force to compress and then should release back to the original position.
The new one fitted was a genuine Peugeot one.
I have now found out that to replace the new one that has gone wrong they must now replace the pair with a new stle that have been modified and that was the last one of the older style that was available, hence they are trying to charge me £160.
I perhaps did not make it quite clear in my original posting. The shock had extended back to its correct positionand the car did not appear to be squatting, it was just the gaitor that seems to have jammed in the lower position. I was under the impression that when a shock compressed the gaitor normally compressed from the bottom towards the top. On this one the gaitor is jammed at the lower end at the point the ram goes in to the tube of the shock. In addition the rubber bush on the top of the arm where it is fixed in to the tower has a large rip in it.
It is almost like some one has jacked the car up and just let it drop off the jack.
In my view to get such a compression in use would wreck the new wheel and tyre fitted as well as the shock and bush and probably result in the driver getting a major jolt enough to smash teeth or similar.
The independant engineer from the insurance company is due to inspect the car and component tommorow so I am looking for as many ideas as I can get because I do not believe my wife has caused this damage.
The other thing that is confusing is the week after the repair the car was driven by the only other person to drive the car the mechanic who took the car for the MOT (annual safety check in the UK).
Regards
Dave
Roger Russell <roger.russell@frontiernet.net> wrote:
Dave,
On the strut compressing, and staying there....
I had an 83 505 td and replaced the struts. I had the local
Sears mechanics put them on, I didn't have the tools or the time. I
ordered the original Peugeot struts. You said that struts are
struts. That's not entirely true. Peugeot has a patented 8 valve
system that is unmatched, nothing is the same! It's worth having OEM
replacements on the struts.
That said, the tube was rubbing on the strut and it was binding,
holding the strut up inside the tube, every compression held a little
more and soon the car would be squatting due to the struts being
jammed up in the tube. I took it back, they adjusted the aliment
between the two with a crow bar so the strut could move inside it,
and that solved the problem.
Roger
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