Cars Ride
The Suspension
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.