Talk:Multi-link suspension

message: I'm guessing that a plan view is the view from above?  Thanks --Badger151 15:31, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''Plan view'' = view from above? 

message: I'm looking for somewhere to add a description of a 'top link', which I would describe as being like an upper wishbone, but with only one arm! Racing cars of the 1960s or thereabouts often had a rear suspension set up of a lower reversed wishbone with two radius rods and a single top link: I guess this could also be defined as a multi-link suspension, albeit a rather crude one, since without any means of accurately computing the effects of the different suspension members control would have been, erm, basic at best. Is this an appropriate place to cover this? 4u1e 22:27, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Top link 

message: In the opening paragraph where beam axle suspension is addressed, the article says that the most common multi-link is a 4 link with a panhard rod. While the panhard setup is technicaly a 4 link, almost no where is it actually refered to as such. It is refered to as a three link, with which the panhard bar acts as the fourth restraint.  With the current wording, it almost suggests (if one where to interpret the wording as is most common) that the most common solid beam configuration is one which utilizes four links as well as a panhard bar. Sorry, but unless all the (non-panhard) links use spherical bearings and are parallel, that equals out to be a total of 6 degrees of restraint (1 for each link, 1 for the panhard, and 1 for the funadmental beam axle configuration). In other words, the tires could not move without putting the links into severe bending.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.56.71.163 (talk) 20:22, 17 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Innaccuracy/confusing statement 

message: This is a very confusing description of car suspension design. I read the article and was no wiser afterwards but I have a suggestion.
I believe the term 'Multi-Link' should not be applied generally to any suspension system with multiple links, but specifically to the complex modern variations on the double wishbone (A arm). These are typically (but not exclusively) used on the front of German cars - Mercedes, BMW, Audi.
Double Wishbones, Trailing Arms, Beam Axles, McPherson Struts, Sliding Pillar, Swing Axles and the like are relatively easy to understand but still require good diagrams. Multi-Link are much more difficult to visualise - incomprehensible without excellent diagrams. If you could add some diagrams with different colours for each individual link it would go a long way to helping readers to grasp the concept. WPAJ (talk) 11:03, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: General Description of MultiLink Suspension

message: the first gif image on the page showing the setup working from the rear view is non repeating unlike the second image from the top view 64.235.89.53 (talk) 15:57, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Image problem

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message: I'd argue not, but if anyone has a reasonable source for the terminology then I'll happily concede. I certainly don't regard a coilspring 4 arms rear suspension with a Watts as multilink in any practical meaning. here's me latest  in production https://carsguide-res.cloudinary.com/image/upload/f_auto,fl_lossy,q_auto,t_cg_hero_large/v1/editorial/2017-Ford-Everest-Red-SUV-1200x800-Tim-Robson%20%2830%29.jpg more to come very soon. Greglocock (talk) 03:54, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I have removed the problematic definition and the many references to beam axles. By definition a beam axle is not independent and therefore cannot be an independent suspension. Greglocock (talk) 01:47, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can a solid axle suspension be multi link?