Member Since: 22 Mar 2018
Location: Scotland
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Suspension. What is normal?
I have just repaired my suspension, it was sinking in the front nearside over night and wouldn’t give me the option of raising and lowering. I replaced from valve blocks, rear valve blocks, a ride height sensor on the rear offside and fixed the plug going into the rear valve block. All was well and I was able to calibrate the suspension and everything seemed to be good with no warnings coming on on the dash and all faults cleared on the diagnostics. For a week things seemed good but the wife has just been out to start it and the whole car was down. It went up immediately on start up, and there are still no warnings on the dash.
My question is this... What is the suspension meant to do when parked up? Does it sink slightly, is there a way that you can lower it when ithe car is off? I checked the system for leaks and couldn’t find any, but there are places where it’s hard to reach.
I’ve not owned it for long, and the suspension has always been faulty so I’m not sure what is normal behaviour.
Any info would be great.
Cheers
Eddie
3rd Apr 2018 3:38 pm
G_Cam
Member Since: 12 Aug 2010
Location: Fife
Posts: 2048
It should stay in the same mode as you switch it off in...
It may self level to some degree however if you are on the bump stops... you have a leak....1 TR6 Rusting away quietly
1 FARR UTV SOLD
1 International Harvester SOLD
7 x D3 all SOLD
2 x D4 both SOLD
1 x Mrs D4 'Panther' SOLD
1 x Outlander van SOLD
1 continual stream of car parts and me living in the garage...
3rd Apr 2018 6:05 pm
KirrieDisco
Member Since: 22 Mar 2018
Location: Scotland
Posts: 124
Thanks G-Cam, I suspected as much.
It must be an occasional leak though which would suggest to me a leak from a valve which have just been replaced with new? Do you know of anything else that would occasionally leak?
Cheers
Eddie
3rd Apr 2018 8:10 pm
G_Cam
Member Since: 12 Aug 2010
Location: Fife
Posts: 2048
I might suggest checking tge voss connections on the valve blocks.. since you had these disconnected
Also worth checking the top of the struts.. again the voss connectors.
The pneumatic pipes can occasionally chafe or even melt if the air compressor is loose or overheats.
If you have an iid you might find it throws up a fault but there are none on the dash...1 TR6 Rusting away quietly
1 FARR UTV SOLD
1 International Harvester SOLD
7 x D3 all SOLD
2 x D4 both SOLD
1 x Mrs D4 'Panther' SOLD
1 x Outlander van SOLD
1 continual stream of car parts and me living in the garage...
3rd Apr 2018 11:06 pm
Alan B
Member Since: 12 Feb 2013
Location: Fife
Posts: 6528
Or pop down to Dundee and see disco Mikey D3 57 xs Stornaway grey
D2 02 commercial silver gone but a great servant and won't be forgotten
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4th Apr 2018 6:59 am
discoverybrazil
Member Since: 07 Aug 2018
Location: sao paulo
Posts: 102
G_Cam wrote:
It should stay in the same mode as you switch it off in...
It may self level to some degree however if you are on the bump stops... you have a leak....
if little down after 3 or 4 days stoped its normal?
8th Aug 2018 12:55 pm
discoverybrazil
Member Since: 07 Aug 2018
Location: sao paulo
Posts: 102
Re: Suspension. What is normal?
KirrieDisco wrote:
I have just repaired my suspension, it was sinking in the front nearside over night and wouldn’t give me the option of raising and lowering. I replaced from valve blocks, rear valve blocks, a ride height sensor on the rear offside and fixed the plug going into the rear valve block. All was well and I was able to calibrate the suspension and everything seemed to be good with no warnings coming on on the dash and all faults cleared on the diagnostics. For a week things seemed good but the wife has just been out to start it and the whole car was down. It went up immediately on start up, and there are still no warnings on the dash.
My question is this... What is the suspension meant to do when parked up? Does it sink slightly, is there a way that you can lower it when ithe car is off? I checked the system for leaks and couldn’t find any, but there are places where it’s hard to reach.
I’ve not owned it for long, and the suspension has always been faulty so I’m not sure what is normal behaviour.
Any info would be great.
Cheers
Eddie
hi i have a disco 3 hse but i use in weekend only, so when stay stoped for 3 or 4 days the suspension is little down it normal or not? thanks
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