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Originally Posted by HWYSTR455
If the shock limits travel it will destroy the shock on rise/lift. It will hammer them and they will leak, for one.
Shocks are generic to a degree to fit more applications, especially cheap shocks.
If you get 24k miles or 7 years out of most main-stream shock, I would be, um, shocked.
With that said, buy/source the correct shock for the application. Many manufacturers, or at least the 'ok' to 'good' ones provide dimensions, as well as travel info.
Shocks are one of those things when once you change them for new ones, you realize just how bad the ones you took off were.
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Bolded area is the cause. Pretty much all off the shelf GM shocks are the same part now, regardless of total travel of the actual car they are being installed in.
It's typically not an issue for your typical street car, or even high performance street car. Unless you're running around on slicks and have a lot of front end lift with traction, you'll never hit the rebound limit of the shocks.
If however your car has a good bit of power and traction, you'll either need to source longer shocks, or install travel limiters.