Car Suspension: Macpherson Strut Suspension (2021)

MacPherson Strut Suspension Explained: What is a MacPherson Strut Suspension? With car suspension animation in the video, the contents include
1) Basic Macpherson strut design: a single control arm connected to the bottom of the wheel hub, as well as a shock spring combination protruding from the top;
2) Working animation: as a suspension dampener and as a steering rod;
3) Advantage: The simplicity is its main advantage, which combines strength, spring and stability at a low manufacturing cost. It's also great for front wheel drive since the space it allows for the driveshaft;
4) Disadvantage: a lengthy vertical assembly, would run into problems If you need to lower your vehicle, thus not suitable for a race car or sports car. It has small camber changes with body roll. Because the strut is moving linearly, the wheel gains camber to a certain extent and after that will start to lose camber.
00:00 MacPherson Strut Suspension
00:30 Basic Design
01:08 The Advantage
01:49 The Disadvantage
02:40 Summary
Keywords: Car suspension | MacPherson Strut Suspension | Automobile Engineering | Shock absorber | Engineering Animation | Educational videos
Acknowledgement:
Car suspension model derived from
TreoHD from CGTrader: www.cgtrader.com/treohd
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[@ANautyMoose]

All my life I had people sit there and just tell me how things work. Visuals/Videos like these really help focus in exactly what I need to know and take away the noise of everything else. Thanks!

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[@Hosanna77777]

Best animation I've seen for this type of thing. All the over videos I've seen look like they're from the 1990s! Well done!

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[@alexkapinga2024]

Possibly a stupid question but can someone please please tell me how the camber is maintained without an upper wishbone helping to hold the camber? Seems to me that when the car corners, lateral forces would make the wheel want to lean over and break off. e.g. The wheel on the outside of the turn would want to lean outwards in the direction of positive camber. What is stopping the wheel and knuckle from ripping it's self away due to this force? It can't be the "strut" that maintains the wheel's camber and takes all that force can it? The only thing I can think of is that the drive shaft helps to hold onto the wheel and experiences a tensile load upon cornering... I understand double wishbone but not single.... EDIT: I think I've figured it out after having another look at the steering knuckle and the key is HOW it connects to the bottom of the shock. The knuckle is offset slightly to the side of the bottom of the shock and has a large connection with two bolts. This extremely minor and simple detail completely changes the direction of the forces acting on the shock from the ones I thought were acting on it. The problem inside my brain is now solved ✅ 😁

[@DanielNehemiahJ]

Very nice! Really needed a visual representation to undestand this. Thanks :)

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[@k0walsk]

Thanks for this

[@Soul_Flow_]

Very informative

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[@andrewwmacfadyen6958]

Illustration is not a MacPherson strut. MacPherson strut is a simplified strut suspension that uses the anti-roll bar to locate the suspension fore and aft to carry the brake reaction forces. As used by Ford England from around 1949.

[@kk40520]

Excellent...gudluck

[@spelunkerd]

Steering components are connected to the knuckle, not the hub. The hub is connected to the knuckle through the wheel bearing, allowing the hub to rotate with the wheel but be aligned firmly in place by the knuckle.

[@dimaareamecanica.9026]

Gracias por la información, es muy útil e importante, sigue con este contenido, saludos desde México

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[@r129r16pfl]

That's why on bmw you need to run large amount of negative camber -4 or more, and stiffen up the front anti rollbar. All because of MacPherson disadvantages.

[@DerekTYWu]

It’s basically a half double wishbone suspension!!

[@MrMelanaphy]

I feel the Macpherson strut suspension provides a less quality ride Vs double wish bone with coil spring provides smooth ride

[@animatedengineering8571]

Thanks for your support. Yes, double wishbone suspension is a lot more complex and provides better control over the MacPherson strut. The negative thing is a double wishbone would cost more on maintenance and repair. 😀

[@ilishmaach]

Great video, music's too loud!

[@sameerapprevieww]

Awesome info ℹ️. kindly reduce the music in next videos and please change the colour of the part when you talk about them

[@mohammedasif1]

Expecting a video about Coupled torsion beam axle

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[@DashCamSerbia]

What exactlly is a modified Macpherson suspension?

[@animatedengineering8571]

A modified Macpherson strut seems to be used in old cars with the coil spring mounted on the lower control arm, i.e., not around the strut as in the video😀 .

[@DashCamSerbia]

@@animatedengineering8571 Hmm. Not so sure, because I read about some modern cars having that "modified MacPherson" suspenson. Or "Pseudo McPherson" like in Opel Insignia.

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[@panda7455]

dont keep music in the video. it is diffcult to focus

[@redsreport9843]

The New Corolla has this and double wishbone suspension on rear

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[@TimberjackKZjdm]

Drifr cars use that

[@edwarddemedeiros3607]

Production costs be damned. I don't like the inherent weakness of the system. I'll take the double wishbone system any day.

[@jakawild6496]

MacphFURson...

[@miejeen]

BGM is irritating. Too loud. No need!

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[@iansutherlandcraig]

Those computer voiced docs are terrible. I lasted 24 secs for the record.

[@kapitandoopa5021]

Poor animation - the shock absorber should be compressed where the spring is, not below that point....

[@Elephantine999]

Too bad about the robot narration. It sounds awful. 🤖