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Steering Damper

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08 Dec 2020 18:48 - 08 Dec 2020 18:57 #230774 by lightning
Replied by lightning on topic Steering Damper
Nope, it's all good.

New genuine Puma springs and Terrafirma adjustable dampers, new swivel balls and swivel preload adjusted, new tyres on genuine LR boost alloys, new radius arm bushes, new ARB bushes, everything else checked.

lt drives fine without the RTC steering damper, l just find it better with one for road use. l prefer the increased self centre on the steering mainly.

On the motorway it's fine either way but again seems like less effort is needed to keep it in the same lane.

Without the RTC steering damper it still self centres, just not as well.

This is particularly noticeable on the extensive urban driving that l do, which involves much turning and reversing on to customers drives.

lt's just personal preference l guess. l've done around 70,000 miles in the Defender and nothing's changed. l imagine the RTC steering damper would be detrimental during off road driving, which is why LR didn't fit one.

There's lots of things Land Rover could have done to make Defender better, but they didn't do it. Also it was never really designed for use as a car.
Last edit: 08 Dec 2020 18:57 by lightning.

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