Thread: air suspension or new coil spring suspension?

Whilts I like air suspension and when it's working it's great, I just prefer the simplicity and reliability of coil springs but that's me. No more dodgy air bags or valve blocks to ruin your day. The ride isn't as good in all honesty but not horrendous.

Thge old mans 98 Rangie is still on air and it's been pretty trouble free for the last couple of years now although it's lucky to have done 10K in that time (had it for nearly 4 years and he's only done 32K in that time so maybe not a fair comparision to a daily driver).

Trav

I look at threads like this and I can only shake my head in amazement. I have been driving Citroens with self levelling suspension since the early sixties, and in that time I have had exactly one suspension failure, in about 1964, due to a pump failure caused by excessive belt tension.

This is a system introduced almost sixty years ago, and it seems to be far more reliable than the much more modern Landrover system. What is the problem that they can't match the reliability achieved by Citroen over fifty years ago? (Citroen had their share of problems in the early fifties, but by 1960 they were pretty trouble free)

The difference of course is that we are looking at an electronic system, not an hydraulic one - is this another example of unreliability associated with electronics? Note that the problems are rarely the actual electronics, but are usually the wiring or the interface between the electronics and the real world (sensors, valve blocks etc).

John