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Why is it so important to keep the joints in perfect condition?

Many users pay attention to the state of their amortisers, but do not pay sufficient attention to the state of the car’s chassis joints.Keeping the joints in perfect state and without holes is very important, especially if our car is over 10 years old or over 100,000 km.

The original silent blocks are manufactured with a standard rubber compound that deteriorates over time, offering less and less control over the geometric integrity of the suspension.Due to this, the tires are also expelled faster and the drive becomes unspecific, especially when braking or accelerating

With the use, chassis joints such as, basculants, silentblocks, labels...etc suffer a wear and a fatigue that normally passes unnoticed to the sight, it is quite complicated to diagnose a bad state of these components at simple sight, even sometimes without having obvious signs of being deteriorated, can have fatigue, for example see the lower illustrations in which a new silentblock and a old one are compared.

With continuous use, the rubber joints go out and suffer the consequences of adverse climatology as well as other aggressive agents, dust, dust, stones, fuels, lubricants etc. that attack the rubber, disintegrating the material and causing the appearance of important holes.These holes can cause the appearance of the following symptoms when braking and accelerating;

• General imbalances and instability
  
• Noise in the basement
• Erratic Chassis Behaviors
• Imprecise direction
• Braking and/or accelerating
• Increased emergency braking distance
• Irregular waste on wheels
• Increased fuel consumption

It is highly recommended to review all the joints and silentblocks by an expert professional to diagnose the state of these, especially if the amortisers are going to be replaced, at the lowest symptom of wear it is recommended to be replaced by other new elements.

If new suspensions are mounted, it is very possible that if there is a hidden defect this remains hidden and the feeling that still changing the suspension the car remains unstable and imprecise.