Sunday, Apr 20, 2014 at 11:03
As others have said further on.
Check the tyre pressures.
There are plenty of mechanics and tyre fitters out there that think they know better than the manufacturer what the inflation pressure should be.
A couple of extra PSI may be fair...but some of these guys put heaps more pressure than is appropriate....muppets
The handbrake put her RAV into the dealer for a service.....dealer remember who should know the correct pressure....or at least be able to read a tyre plackard.......and the tyres came back over inflated to the tune of about 15psi...of course it drove like a dray.
When I picked up my 2wd hilux from the used car dealer, the tyres where over inflated to the tune of 20psi....I knew what was wrong when I
test drove it....the 1 hour trip
home was bone jaring.
Most vehicles including softly sprung pasenger cars move on the tyres before
the springs.....all of that short sharp jaring action is absorbed by the tyres.
Over inflating tyres in any car will turn it into a dray.
Before you
test drive again, ask what the tyres are inflated to and is that what is on the tyre plackard....get em to
check or take your own guage.
AND..OH yess, the vehicle unladen will drive harder than with a load .....ALL of the stationwaggon 4wds are fairly softly sprung and have fairly low payloads in comparison to the commercial variants.
So you don't have to put much in them to soften the ride.
Even my hiluxes..that are known to be hard riding...it only takes a couple of hunderd KG of the over 1 tonne available payload to soften them up...as long at the tyre pressures are correct for the load carried.
When you
test drive again...drive the vehicle alone or with 1 pasenger...then borrow a couple of bodies from the show room and put em in the back
seat
Both my hiluxes ( remember stiffly suspended by any standards) ride much better with someone in the pasenger
seat.
AND, remember it is a new car and neither
the springs or shockies will have bedded in.
moving further on.
After market shock absorbers may yeild some improvements...there are some brands and models that are specifically known to be designed to ride better....KONI shock absorbers where designed for performance with a good ride from day 1...the story is that the danish royla family wanted a bit of comfort..even though they where and still are a known bunch of rev heads.
cheers
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