{"id":1630,"date":"2025-09-07T14:16:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T14:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/?p=1630"},"modified":"2025-09-07T14:16:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T14:16:28","slug":"shocking-revelation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/index.php\/2025\/09\/07\/shocking-revelation\/","title":{"rendered":"Shocking Revelation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ll admit, that title was a bit ridiculous. I was going for a cruise in my baja this morning and all the sudden I had some clunking, turns out my brand new Bilstein shock on the driver side front came loose. I strapped it in place and limped home. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3802-2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1633\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3802-2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3802-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3802-2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3802-2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3802-2-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now I watched this video on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mIbRcaW-IiU\">YouTube from Heidi and Franny<\/a>.  With that I went to reinstall the shock, they had a shock that just easily compressed, mine did not. I use a piece of webbing to wrap around and compress it, the slide it under the mount. I added some loctite and tightened it up with a 10mm extra long wrench. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3803-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1604\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3803-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3803-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3803-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3808-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1605\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3808-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3808-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3808-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3808-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3808-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3812-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1606\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3812-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3812-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3812-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3812-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3812-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Did I have to do this twice? Yes, yes I did, because I put the rubber bump stop on upside down the first time&#8230; Short test drive and it seems fixed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"680\" src=\"http:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/L1023019-1024x680.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1627\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/L1023019-1024x680.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/L1023019-300x199.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/L1023019-768x510.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/L1023019-1536x1020.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/L1023019-2048x1360.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll admit, that title was a bit ridiculous. I was going for a cruise in my baja this morning and all the sudden I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1634,"href":"https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions\/1634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robonza.com\/beetle\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}