Removing AAS
 

Wats up guys?


Real quick, I am going to Install my springs on my 89, Now i have AAS and was wondering if I should remove it or keep it. Will it still work good with the lowering springs or not?

And if I were to remove it is there a write up on proper removal? From what i've herd theres a seperate cpu for this and you can save some weight as well.



Thanks.


Adam

Remove it!!! I hated it on my GXL. Took me 1 week of driving with it to get mad and rip it out. You steer one way and it tries to stiffen/soften up and throws you off.

There is a motor above every shock tower. Unplug and remove them.

The computer is in the spare tire well. Remove it as well.

Congrats! You just shaved 5 useless pounds out of your car!

I'm pretty sure that's not how it works... yours might have just been broken. it only stiffens/softens when you press one of the buttons. It doesn't have anything to do with the steering.

I would replace your struts when you replace your springs, they're probably dead, and if not they probably will be pretty soon. it'll still work with the lowering springs, but you'll probably blow out the shocks. if you do take just the electronics out, make sure you select hard or soft (whichever you want) before you take it out so you don't have to manually do it.

Yeah thats no the way it's supposed to work. It's supposed to stiife/sofen the front and rear shocks according to your speed But thanks for the removal tips.

The system was working fine if it adjusted according to your steering inputs. It works off brake, throttle and steering position...and will over-ride whichever mode you have it set in. It will also become stiffer at speeds above 70mph I believe it is.. My two GXL's prior to my current car had working A.A.S. systems that were in good enough shape for there to be a difference large enough to note.

To remove the system's main components, simply disconnect and remove the actuators at the top of each shock absorber and remove the computer from the spare tire well, as someone else already mentioned.

But in case you were to sell the car and didn't want your go-faster bits to be sold with it...keep your A.A.S. components around in a box somewhere...that way you can just swap them back on if you were to sell/wreck the car. Terms like 'Automatic sports suspension' make most ignorant prospective buyers go *OooOOoOOooh!*.

I thought that if you had speed sensing power steering it relayed to the computer to soften or stiffen certain struts.

No, not to my knowledge. It doesn't work with each strut or pairs of struts individually...it just stiffens all of them up under hard acceleration, hard braking, hard cornering and at higher speeds for overall better stability.

A lot of people say it was just a gimmick system, but I disagree. I think when it's in acceptable shape and working properly it provides you with just that little bit more comfort and slightly increased stability when you want or need it.