Suspension Is a Grip System

Suspension — springs and shock absorbers — has a comfort reputation and a safety job: it keeps the tyres pressed onto the road. A worn shock absorber lets the wheel skip and float over bumps, and a tyre that's airborne or lightly loaded grips nothing — so braking distances stretch and cornering grip falls, on rough surfaces specifically, which per Lesson 1.7 is a large share of the network. Suspension condition is stopping-distance content wearing comfort's clothes: the bouncy ride you'd dismiss as a comfort niggle is the same fault that lengthens your stop on the next murram section.