I had original springs and shocks/struts in my 96 gle. About a week ago, i replaced the shocks/struts with blue tokicos (kept the orginal springs). i did not like the ride, so over the weekend replaced them again with KYB GR2. Now is too stiff. I'm taking a long road trip and am looking for a comfortable ride. Please help me. What can i do. are the tokicos better than the KYBs. Im looking for that brand-new-car ride. right now i have Michelin mxv4 plus, if that makes any difference. Should i replace anything else in the suspension. the car has 135K miles on it. Everything is still original, but well taken care of. Thank you for your input.

 

All suspension mods give better handling for lower ride comfort. If you wanted comfort you should have stayed with the GLE glycerine shocks. Those are lightest ride when it comes to comfort. An aftermarket option would be adjustable shocks because they can be set to be light or heavy.

 

just get the eibach or H&R spring and put them on the tokico,this combo is the closest to factory ride you can get in aftermarket spring/shock,but more stable at high speed.

 

Yes, but he actually likes his stock GLE ride though. Adding aftermarket springs will just make the ride worse for him.

From what I heard, the KYB GR-2 struts are about 15% firmer than the stock struts. If those were too hard for you, then the best thing to do is go with OEM struts. Will probably cost double what you paid for the GR-2's though.

 

The Tokico is the softest, smoothest, factory like ride of them all. I can't believe you didn't like them???? Your car's suspension was probably so worn out that it floated over everything like a boat. Trust me, that was NOT how your car rode when it was new. You've just got used to that degraded ride.

The GR2 are great shocks! A little more stable then the Tokicos, but still a nice ride. Perhaps you should drive the car a little more and get used to the way it really should ride!

Even if you went and got new OEM Nissan shocks, I'm sure you'd still feel a big difference over how your car was riding. Stick with the GR2's or put the Tokicos back in. Both are excellent shocks coupled with OEM springs. You should have a nice smooth controlled ride now, not the floaty boat like ride you had.

 

put the blues back on and give it a 1000 miles to break in. that road trip will be perfect for it.

 

Wait...do you mean that my OEM shocks in my 95 max (88k miles) are D E A D?

Besides the fact of being GXE, my car rides like a boat, and I feel the spring bounce off every time I hit a bump.

But there is no leaking in the shocks. Do I even have gas shocks? or is it glycerin jelly?