Some of you may have seen my thread about the parking lot accident, but either way, here's my question:

The advisor says they need to replace my passenger side front shock as it's been bent. A friend of mine mentioned that replacing a single shock on a car that has 125,000km on it (nearing 100,000 miles) might produce some strange handling, etc. Should I push to have both driver and passenger shocks replaced at the same time for handling/safety reasons? What other reasons can I give to him to give the insurance adjuster, to help my cause?

I am lowered on Tein H-Tech springs.

Thanks,
Eric

 

Doing one shock with that many miles will cause the car to handle different. Even if the car had only 50000 miles on it i would recommend both shocks. Also save some money from the stock shocks and get 4 tockico blues. I think a whole set is about $300. I got the H-techs as well and will hopefully be doing the tockico blue swap too, but I had to do a engine rebuild so that kinda cut my car fund down. So when thats all done maybe this summer I will be getting the blues.

 

Does anyone have personal experience with the Tokicko blues on a TSX here? Would it be an upgrade over stock at all? My local parts guy who sells a lot of 'tuner' stuff as well, says the Blues are "OE-replacements" as per Tokicko, so they aren't really any better for lowered cars, and, their lifetime warranty would be void once they're on a non-OEM spring.

 

im on blues and s tech springs. i'm lowered a bit more than you and can say the struts are holding up just fine. they are firmer than oem and even a spec, but not too bad and the suspension generally feels connected to the road -- even confidence inspiring. i'm sure that you should been ok with that 1" drop