New member Q. about bottoming out

[AluminumStork]

Bought my 2003 NB 3 months ago (first time owner) and basically finished with doing everything I was going to do with it (sans coil overs... that happens this summer) Anyway, shocks look fine but man if I hit a pothole I hear this thud/bang in the rear... is that a sign of weak springs (NB is set up stock springs and shocks (sport)) It just feels like the car bottoms out.

Thanks for any advice.

[Greasemonkey2000]

Springs rarely "fail" but if the shocks have more than 50k miles(most cases less) I can all but guarantee they are toast unless they are Bilstein's then maybe 100k miles out of those but even they usually fail before that.

[Slampen]

I would not judge the wear of my suspension on the behaviour over potholes alone.
How is the suspension behaving when not surfing potholes? :)

If your suspensions are what came with the car from the factory, you have a good excuse to upgrade. :)