[mikeone718]

Anyone have any idea on what can cause this? Or more importantly, how to fix it?
I had a couple of buds over yesterday to try and figure it out but no dice.
Everything is in order and nothings missing.

PK, Joe, thanks for the effort. :thumbup:
Any advice/suggestions would be much appreciated.

 

[ShelbyVNT]

Umm this may be of no help but Dukes of Hazzard?

You didn't happen to go hill hopping lately did you.

To be honest I haven't even looked at my rear shocks yet (still choosing coilovers) so I have no idea how they're held in place. I've never seen anything like this.

 

[mk3_vws]

bad bushing? little c-clip not on the shaft?

 

[slade95vr6]

HOLY $hit!!! NO good bro

 

[mikeone718]

You didn't happen to go hill hopping lately did you.

NYC streets man...smooth roads are a rarity here.

Nothing is missing, thought maybe it could be a bad mount, got some new mounts but it still came through.

 

[Ilich]

this steel plate is damaged or missing

this is how it should look like:

rove first

then plate

done

 

[L. Fopps]

I'd replace the strut. The piston must have extended past where it's supposed to. I've never seen anything like this before


Sent with my thumbs

 

[PKstrategy]

I'd replace the strut. The piston must have extended past where it's supposed to. I've never seen anything like this before


Sent with my thumbs

I thought this might be the case too.
We couldn't figure it out at all.
Under load, the piston of the shock just pushes all the way through.
It doesn't stay compressed.

That "cap" looking thing is there and I believe everything was assembled in that same order.

 

[mikeone718]

I've never seen anything like this before

x2, total mindf**k here.

 

[Mygfcabby95]

Happened to me and my car was lowered on springs and wietech shocks. You need a new strut, I just used a stock strut with no problems. The piston has a round lip after the threads and that is damaged and allows the piston to travel all the way through the mounts. I used the same mounts but on a new strut took about 30 min to do you don't need a spring compressor or anything.

 

[mikeone718]

new set of coils might be in order then.

thanks guys :beer:

 

[emkaytree]

At least the tower is still fine. You're going to just have to rebuild the suspension, and assemble in proper order with all parts. Then you're fine. :thumbup:

Everyone is like, mindf*ckwtfbbq, but, I wouldn't expect anything different from a mk3. Beautiful actually. Good job man. :thumbup:

 

[Uncle_Jesse]

new set of coils might be in order then.

thanks guys :beer:

do itttt! should be at the meet next week with the ginster.... finally!

 

[mikeone718]

hold down the ginster fort til i can bring mine out again :laugh:

 

[Hurt]

A Jetta of mine came like that. :laugh: They tried hiding it with the parcel tray.. It was a shady dealer. They pulled all the bulbs out of the gauge cluster, put silicone on a few leaks, did a ton of weird, stupid stuff. When I replaced the shocks it was normal again.

 

[Jtek]

holy **** mine is like that and has a vise-grip on the shock holding it from going too far(?) even tho the shock is now hitting my speaker pod..every pot-hole or bump or speed-bump is hell on that poor shock and whats worse is I got bilsteins and I'm pretty sure it's wrecked -_-

its just a plate thats missing or busted. Wrecking yard time.

 

[Big Cojones]

I have had that happen to me before. It turned out to be a small c-clip that goes around the shaft of the shock came off. I would start there and see if it still there.

 

[LG6R]

I have had that happen to me before. It turned out to be a small c-clip that goes around the shaft of the shock came off. I would start there and see if it still there.

Same here :beer:

http://forums.vwvortex.com/showthread.php?2818263-yay!-Suspension-broke!

 

[PMLyf]

When i replaced my struts i had this happen. The little washer that goes above the c clip was missing. after i found that all was good until the c-clip came out of the grove. I cant remember where i found new c clips but they were a bit thicker and held up!

 

[PKstrategy]

Mike, you can find the circlip and information on all the components here.
I can't figure out which one is the clip to buy but it shows it in the diagram.