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Automobile suspension replacement

Model: Fiat Punto 188, MK 2 - Years 1999-2011
Part: Suspensions

This handy guide shows you how to replace your car's suspension. The suspensions allow to absorb the stresses arriving at the car by understanding and expanding a gas contained within them. Each of them is constituted by a rubber spring closed watertight, it will exploit the compressed air that generates the compressor, without these the wheels would come off having no grip on the road for this we will have a loss of control of the vehicle. We will need a compressor with pneumatic gun, jack, a spring tensioner, a ratchet wrench, a T-handle. The first thing to do is to lift the car with the help of the jack and remove the wheel: we put the reverse gear and brake by hand, we now remove the internal fenders, they are fixed by three plastic nuts, we push from the bottom up to release it. Once this is done, the fender comes off easily. When it comes out we put the car in line to facilitate the exit, now we unscrew the screw that holds the shock absorber with the same procedure as the lower one. Let's move on to assemble the new piece: first we fix the lower part, once this is done it will not be in line, it will be enough to press looking at the side, so we will be able to fix the screws easily and without complications. For the replacement of the passenger side suspension we will proceed in a completely similar way.


Posted on 15 September 2023 by ScegliAuto



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