“The difference is fierce!”
We have now driven a few kilometres with the new dampers. My best co-driver of all said at some point: Finally they’ve done this motorway too. And later: Watch out for ruts! In reality, the motorway had not been rebuilt, and there were already ruts several kilometres before the sign.
The vehicle (Holiday Rambler Monaco) now runs so much better that it’s a huge difference. While I used to have shoulder pain after just a few kilometres and had to ‘row’ quite tensely to stay on course in crosswinds or ruts, it now rides as if on rails. Mind you, fully fuelled, well prepared for the holiday and with a high trailer with a car in it. The combination weighs around 19 tonnes, is 18 metres long and will soon be 4 metres high. I am really impressed and the only thing that bothers me is not having found out about Marquart earlier.
Incidentally, the suspension comfort has also improved, because otherwise there was sometimes a bottoming out that I have not experienced before. I used to think that if an air suspension didn’t absorb it, then it was a huge hole. Now I know that their dampers also help. I’m all the more thrilled because my ‘old dampers’ don’t seem to be broken either. In any case, they don’t leak, and when compressed or pulled apart, they really do provide resistance. But the difference is huge.“
Mark H. from Nidda-Harb