tarphenry said:

Not necessarily,could be suspension self leveling at stop.If its on air,they all do it

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Datatek said:

+1 as you stop, the front self levels.

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Henrik97 said:

Yes, I know that. This is not the air suspension leveling. The car approaches the light under braking, the fronts compress until the car comes to a halt. Then they bounce back up as you'd expect, but then it bounces again once or twice (considerably less, of course, than the first rebound), and then it self-levels. So it's definitely the air bags winning over the shocks, I just wanted to know if this is a sure sign of blown shocks as on other cars, or if these are deliberately fitted with slightly weak shocks to improve the ride quality. If you keep an eye on your bonnet edge when you brake to a halt, does your car come back up once and stay there, or does it bounce back down and up again before coming to rest (all within the first fraction of a second after coming to a halt)?

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Datatek said:

It goes down and up again, and as said, it's the EAS doing it's thing. Stand on the bumper and bounce it up and down and see what happens.

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Henrik97 said:

No offence, but it's not the EAS. I know how it works and it only comes into play after this bounce has settled. This is a bounce like any old car with tired shocks - I simply wanted to find out how "loose" they're meant to be. It does the exact same thing if i bounce on the bumper - i.e. it doesn't settle immediately after I jump off, but takes another swing or two.

Regards,
Henrik

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tarphenry said:

Why then ask the question that you know the answer to?

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Henrik97 said:

I didn't know, but now I do. I suspected it, yes, but it's always useful to ask someone with a similar car how theirs behaves before forking out for parts I may not need. There are big differences in shock absorbers - a Porsche settles far quicker than, say, an XJ Jaguar.

Thanks Data, for your input. New shocks on the list then.

Henrik

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Henrik97 said:

I didn't know, but now I do. I suspected it, yes, but it's always useful to ask someone with a similar car how theirs behaves before forking out for parts I may not need. There are big differences in shock absorbers - a Porsche settles far quicker than, say, an XJ Jaguar.

Thanks Data, for your input. New shocks on the list then.

Henrik

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