Suspension

Front wheel

City-El has a front shock strut has similar to a scooter with a short rocker and an absorber leg.

The picture here is of series 1 vehicle, therefore still levers are to be seen there for the accommodation of the bowden cable for the parking brake.

Rear wheels

In the back quarter-elliptic leaf springs with absorbers are installed. The spring travel is particularly short in the back. It can occur with older series that the motot hits the middle battery and damages it. Some El s are situated so deeply that shock absorber " rides " constantly on its rubber stop, the suspension comfort suffers here naturally. Stronger feathers/springs are fitted since ca.1995 series. Older vehicles can be re-fitted easily with the new feathers/springs. With some older vehicles feathers/springs are already broken. My City-El is also sagging due to distortion of the battery basket at the spring fixing point.

Feather/spring change in the back

• Hub nuts in the back loosen
• Jack up
• Wheels remove
• The feathers/springs are fastened to the fixed end with in each case two screws to the battery basket. In the battery basket are welded nuts. Above these nuts collects itself dirt that to be first removed must.
• The nuts/mothers with penetrating oil / Rust remover well inject, the fixing bolts are otherwise difficult to remove.
• The plastic covers in the wheel housings remove.
• The retaining screws of the brake core disks (horizontal SW17) at the suspension bushings remove
• With jacking equipment the feathers/springs again somewhat load (jacking equipment under the feathers/springs set)
• The upper screws of the shock absorbers at the battery basket loosen.
• Feathers/springs relieve
• Suspension bushings and transverse stabilizer of the feathers/springs remove (aluminum threads in the backing plates, be careful not to strip).
• The feathers/springs at the fixed end unbolt and remove (if you the front bolt break off you have a problem - in the worst case one must bore the bolt remainders and damaged thereby probably the thread of the nut/mother. A second nut doesn't really help. This second nut/mother collides then with a fixing bolt of the battery basket in the battery. The threads then before removing well inject!)

The installation takes place then similarly to the removal. With the fact it is important that one does not let spannings arise (with the feathers/springs)... Best one meets this in which one the work procedures for both pages always directly executes.

With some vehicles aluminum shims installed between the springs and the battery basket to raise the ride height.

letzte Änderung 07.12.99