Damper strut

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A damper strut is a unit made up of shock absorbers as part of the wheel guide and wheel carrier used in the wheel suspensions of motor vehicles . The wheel carrier is firmly connected to the damper housing (cylinder). Except for the coil spring, the damper strut is similar to the MacPherson strut with a permanently attached wheel carrier. It is used where there is no space for the integrated coil spring or where a different type of spring is intended for the vehicle suspension from the start .

Fiat used struts with trapezoidal wishbones and transversely installed leaf springs from the 1960s to the 1980s on the rear axle of small and compact cars with front-wheel drive .

DAF combined damper struts with wheel-guiding transverse leaf springs on the front axle and later, like Porsche, with suspension levers and torsion bar springs .

Daimler-Benz used until the mid-1990s, in some model lines (including 124 series , 201 series ) at the front damper struts, wherein the helical spring braced on a transverse link.

More recently (2010s) shock absorber struts have been used on the front axle of small commercial vehicles .

literature

  • Bernd Hoting, Metin Ersoy, Stefan Gies: Chassis Manual . Basics · Driving dynamics · Components · Systems, 4th edition, Springer Fachmedien, Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-658-01991-4 .
  • Uwe Ernstberger, Jürgen Weissinger, Jürgen Frank: Mercedes-Benz SL. Development and technology, Springer Fachmedien, Wiesbaden 2013, ISBN 978-3-658-00799-7 .

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