Hey maybe he will store it during winter. Alternately using Rust Check kept a neighbors mustang from rusting, not even the gas tank straps, 10 years and this was in the 80's. I would think they have improved it by now.
You're right I hadn't considered that, I keep forgetting people have garages lol.
I so badly want air ride in our mark that way it runs like it was designed to. But I'd has some ebay no name spring conversion in it.
Some? I would say most!
Hey you can convert it back, many here have done that. I do not see why some complain about air suspension - a shock/spring rarely last 10 years. My air bags and strut air bags have lasted 22 years and still going just fine. I have a slow leak that only happens when it is below freezing and before this recent issue with it raising the front too high on the right, it stopped going down in the cold, so i think it was the sensor or O rings. I have sprayed the bay with soap and water a few times and have not ever saw any air bubbles.
There are 2 kinds of shocks, gas and oil, the latter being a hydraulic system of ported valving. the Monroe air shocks I put on mine are oil with air rebound rather than internal spring of a conventional. Its VERY rare that a car wares out or breaks a coil spring under normal driving conditions. If you are loosing rear grip over bumps, its either bad/cheap shocks or your A arm bushings/joints are wore out. Now that's not to say you just have really bad roads since any car with light rear ends like a MK8 can fish tail over broken pavement at speed.
Thanks no contradiction, to clarify, it has been fine until just the this winter, when the front right has started to go down in extreme cold weather, over night. But the last week or two when the car started raising to the max height if i left the system on, it no longer lowered in the cold and yes I let the system rise until normal height, then i turned it off.Maybe I'm not reading the above posting right but it seems there is a slight contradiction there.... When I bought my 97 I ran it for a couple months with the front deflating every time you shut the car off. I researched everything there is to know about the system and reviewed the shop manual on the trouble shooting of the system. Only after all that thoughtful effort, I decided I'm not getting any younger in my wrenching abilities so it boiled down to springs with air shocks on the rear. In comparing the ride before and after, I think I made a good decision. I don't knock any one for wanting it factory. Iv been wrenching since 1976 at a Chevy Olds dealership and have a little knowledge about electronic systems as they continue to get old..... like me, they tend to not work so well with failures when you least expect it. Good luck finding your above issues
There are newer systems, but why pay more for a custom setup when you can buy new stock replacement parts that will last 10 or more worry free years? You can purchase new front shocks from autozone with lifetime warranty.
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i would check your complete rear suspension. Upper and lower control arms, sway bar, shocks etc. Not sure what you described can be blamed solely on the springs, unless something is seriously wrong with them and or their installation.
