The normal 'life expectancy is 5 years or 50k miles.
Shocks should be treated like a service item, after all, we don't wait until our cambelts snap before we replace them.
The performance drop off is slow and is therefore un-noticed. Similar to tyres really, except you can see when you tyres need replacing.
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Andy
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If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I
would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher. I would rather
choose to be a plumber or a peddler in the hope to find that modest degree
of independence still available under present circumstances.
-- Albert Einstein, The Reporter, November 18 1954
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