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Hard Suspension after shock absorbers replaced

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Hi, and thanks in advance for any help! 

 

I have an X150 4.2 2007 model, it's done just over 100k.

When I bought it 3 years ago I noticed that one of the shock absorbers was leaking, so I bought a set of 4, fully expecting to change them within a few days. That  didn't happen and they sat in the garage for 3vyesrs!

With this lockdown now on, I finally got time to do them, not a bad job at all! The problem I have now is that the suspension is very hard, making the car very uncomfortable to drive. 

What I would like to know is, does the cats system need to be reset to tell it that there are new shockers on? 

I hope someone can help as I hate driving the car now 😭 

I have a mazda Rx8 as a second car, I always thought the suspension was hard on that, but the Jag takes the biscuit now😁


hi

only way to know for sure is get it plugged into Jaguar IDS/SDD, which will tell you the fault

if theres a fault it defaults to hard setting, if its got cats suspension, usually green shocks

if you disconected a shocker with ignition on usually gives a fault, but not sure if on your model  they self reset or not

only way to know is get it plugged in

cheers

Joe

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Cheers Joe, 

That's another job I have been meaning to do, had the sdd discs for a while now! 

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Just checked the part numbers, the shocks I bought were for a XKR-S, so even though they fitted, much too stiff!

So if anyone wants a new pair of shocks give me a shout😁

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