Testing Shock Absorbers

[Dpicariello]

Evening everyone,

As payment for installing a set of KW V1's on my mate's coupe quattro (which incidentally now looks fantatsic), he has kindly donated a car set of struts and 4 Boge shocks to my coupe.
I am going to build a suspension setup off the car, geting the struts blasted and powder coated and then wrapping them in H&R's.

The shocks I have look in good conditon but here is my question:

Once compressed, 3 of them return to their extended length. the remaining one though does not and you can hear a slight "gurgle" when compressing. Does this mean it's had it's day? What are the signs of worn or fubarred shocks? Can you get shocks tested?

I'm a real novice when it comes to the workings of suspension so any help would be most appreciated.

Thanks

Dan

[K Simmonds]

Yeah your right that one shock sounds fooked. New genuine ones aren't as expensive as one would expect, if I was going to the trouble of powder coating them I'd rebuild them all with new struts as a mater of course, especially if their all as old as the blown one.

[andyg plym]

dan you could always sell them to me, cos mine are proper fooked

[Dpicariello]

These are now going up for sale. As mentioned above, one shock seems like it's a bit soggy

Link

Thanks

Dan