Shocks & Struts para Pontiac Grand Am

Pontiac Grand Am Shocks and Struts

Shocks and struts are one of the most important parts of any vehicles chassis. They reduce the impact from bumpy roads and sudden drops, helping to keep your Pontiac Grand Am driving straight and smooth, as well as protecting the rest of the car from damage. When youre in the market for shocks and struts, it helps to know the difference between various types and about the particulars of your suspension.

Shocks and struts counteract impacts with the road, improving the drivers control of the vehicle and preventing damage to the cars undercarriage. In keeping with Newtons third law, these components use pressurized gas, oil, or oxygen to balance out the vehicles suspension. Often, drivers will continue to drive even after their shocks and struts have begun to go bad - in most cases, this merely results in an uncomfortable ride, but it can also cause serious damage to your vehicle if the car bottoms out and the undercarriage makes a hard impact with the ground. Eventually, a car whose suspension has failed will become immobile, and the parts will need to be replaced.

Most shocks absorb force using gas, oil, or air.

• Gas: These shock absorbers utilize hydraulic oil in a blend with pressurized nitrogen, which bumps in the road further pressurize.
• Oil: Oil shocks use hydraulic oil without nitrogen, and they work in essentially the same way.
• Air: Air shocks use compressed air to create a counterbalancing force on the vehicles suspension, keeping it steady even on uneven surfaces. Most air shocks can reach up to 150 psi.

Although the two terms are often confused by laymen, there are actually notable differences between the two-part types. They do the same thing, absorbing shock from impacts, but their composition is very different inside the vehicles overall body. Vehicles will only have either a shock or a strut as part of each tires suspension and will not have both. They cannot be used to replace one another.

• Struts: Struts are fused into the vehicles overall suspension, and influence the vehicles steering system by providing a point on which the overall suspension can rotate.
• Shocks: Shocks are much less vital components of the vehicles chassis - they can be replaced much more easily, and do not relate to steering at all.