It rides like a boat, no dive at braking but rear sways. Has some type of bags in rear instead of struts or springs. Will replacing shocks alone be sufficent? car has about 90M on it. Rear sways and gard to keep car in control on freeways. Any suggestions?
Check you front and rear sway bar links, the air springs would not cause this.
IT HAS AN AIR SUSPENSION, U MAY NEED A NEW AIR BAGS IN THE BACK AND IT WILL COST U ABOUT $1000 W/LABOR, U CAN FIND AN AFTER MARKET COIL SPRINGS W/ AIR STRUTS AND PUT 'EM ON, BUT THEY WONT DO IT THE DEALERSHIP 4 U. IF U DONT WONT THE AIR SUSPENSION, U GOTTA GET A FRONT SHOCKS ALSO AND DISCONNECT THE COMPRESSOR.
I also had a Lincoln town car. I know what you mean when you say it rides like a boat. FUN! Well, the bags went out and the back of the car lifted up. I was driving around like I had hydraulics and left the car in the air to show off! I felt like I was in a low rider. The cops stopped me often. So embarrassing! Anyways, I contacted lincoln and they said it would cost $600.00 to fix and that was just the bag replacement ($300.00 each). That was not even including the labor! I didn't have the money because I needed to buy some hair extensions for my hair so I had this guy put springs in the rear where the bags should have been. He charged me about $200.00. Cant remember if that included labor. It might of. But I saved at least $400.00! I don't know how he knew what to do but he offered to do it. Anyways, that fixed the problem but it didn't ride like a boat anymore.
If the door panel says the correct inflation pressure for your vehicle is 32 psi then why wouldn't you go with that, instead of a generic safety warning about MAXIMUM (ie: not the same as RECOMMENDED) inflation pressure printed on the tire? Your tire doesn't know what kind of vehicle it is on, how would it know what the recommended pressure is? Besides, you are not looking in the right spot on the tire. If you read the small print (which nobody ever does) it tells you to inflate the tire to the inflation pressure indicated by the sticker in the door.
