thanks for the reply steve,
well the reason i ask is because my car is sitting low in the rear, as if one has tons of load in the trunk. everytime i take it to the dealer to get the shocks checked, they say they checked out fine. is there some test that the dealer makes the shocks and springs go through to figure out whether they're under specs or not ?

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