Summary of How Car Suspension Works: Car Suspension Components, Animation and Different Types of Suspension

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This video explains how car suspensions work, focusing on the different types of suspension and their advantages and disadvantages. The main types of suspension are independent suspension, Macpherson strut suspension, and double wishbone suspension. Front-wheel drive vehicles typically use independent suspension, while rear-wheel drive vehicles use either a Macpherson strut or double wishbone suspension. The video discusses the different types of suspension systems and how they work. It covers the basics of double wishbone suspension, multi-link suspension, and trailing arm suspension. The video notes that trailing arm suspension is cheaper and easier to build and offers good reliability and durability.

• 00:00:00 Car suspensions work to absorb vibration and impact forces from the road, ensuring the car stays in contact with the road surface. There are four types of springs used in car suspensions systems - coil springs, leaf springs, torsion bars, and air springs. Coil springs are the most common type, and leaf springs are used today mostly on trucks and heavy-duty vehicles because of their simplicity. Shock absorbers are devices that help to control the unwanted spring motion through a process called dampening.
• 00:05:00 The video explains how car suspension works, focusing on the different types of suspension and their advantages and disadvantages. The main types of suspension are independent suspension (where the wheels are allowed to move independently), Macpherson strut suspension (which combines two functions, as a steering rod and suspension dampener), and double wishbone suspension (which is a type of independent suspension). Front-wheel drive vehicles typically use independent suspension, while rear-wheel drive vehicles use either a Macpherson strut or double wishbone suspension.
• 00:10:00 The video discusses the different types of suspension systems and how they work. It covers the basics of double wishbone suspension, multi-link suspension, and trailing arm suspension. The video notes that trailing arm suspension is cheaper and easier to build and offers good reliability and durability.
• 00:15:00 Car suspensions include a variety of different designs, each with its own advantages and disadvantages. We'll look at the trailing arm suspension, which is most commonly used in rear-wheel drive passenger cars and light trucks. This suspension allows both rear wheels to move independently, but it can only handle vertical movement. A more advanced design, the torsion beam suspension, uses a cross member to join the two trailing arms together, improving the design by allowing for more wheel adjustment. However, it is more expensive to make, and may not be suitable for more advanced cars. Another type of suspension, the air suspension, uses air bellows to replace conventional coils and dampers. The airbag is filled with air from the tank to keep the car at the desired height, and then released to lift the car back up.
• 00:20:00 This video explains how car suspension works, and different types of suspension are used.