Cars Ride
The
suspension is the chief mechanism that separates your bum from the
road. It also prevents your car from quaking itself to pieces. The role
of a car suspension is to maximize the friction between the tires and
the road surface, to provide steering stability with good handling and
to make sure the comfort of the passengers. Basically, suspension is
made of two basic components: springs and shock absorbers.
Springs mainly are of three types: coil springs, torsion bars and leaf
springs,Shock absorbers (also known as dampers) dampen the vertical
motion induced by driving your car along a rough surface. Shock
absorbers accomplish two functions.
They absorb any larger-than-average bumps in the road so that the shock
is not passing on to the car chassis. They maintain the suspension at
as full a travel as possible for the given road conditions.
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