Ride is too harsh

I have a 2004 TD5 and my local LR specialist has recently replaced the shocks for me. He has fitted some Bearmach Tuffbacks but the ride is now very (too) firm.

I don't know whether it is the combination of the shocks with the 18 inch wheels (pressures 30F and 38R) but the car is no longer a comfortable drive and on bumpy roads it is just hard work.

The garage says the shocks will soften up with time but I am not sure whether they are just fobbing me off.

Before I go back to the garage I wondered whether anyone has any experience of these shock absorbers? Are they suitable for mainly road driving? Is there any adjustment on them? Is there anything I can do to make the ride more acceptable (other than new shocks)?

All help and ideas appreciated

can you ask the garage bloke how thats gonna happen? ad love to hear how

S'a well known fact. Within a short time of new shocks being fitted the fluid in 'em gradually transmutes from a liquid into several extremly strong, fluffy kittens.

The ride then softens, but when parked up you should leave a drip tray filled wiv milk unner yer motor to reward your plucky little felines.


Eeva that or yer garage is giving you a load of old bollox.

Full fat or skimmed?

Skimmed, fer kittens? Are you mad!

Is that why mine keep dying then?

Aye, the lil' feckers are dying of malnutrition yer cruel bastid.

Would the salt that I was putting in their milk affect it too?

Yer heartless bastid. Yer'll be posting pichers of dog fighting next!

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