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Originally Posted by Chip
These shocks should not be failing like this. I have to wonder if the spring rates for this car are wrong or if the dampening rates on the shock are wrong? I guess it's possible that there is a defect within the shock itself as a function of poor assembly, but I don't believe that's the case. Any more details on the failure?
The cars seem to ride, handle, and drive fine. I doubt GM would have made such a mismatch in shocks to springs that would stress out the shocks. This sounds to me like there are some bad shocks that got away from Bilstein.