Quote Originally Posted by Lundefaret View Post
BOS Dampers:
One question:
Mäkinen has quoted that he intends to use BOS dampers on the Toyota WRC.

In - i think it was 2008 - I did a research story trying to find out what went wrong with Subaru/Prodrive, and why Petter stopped winning after 2005.
There was off course several aspects, but one thing - that was confirmed also by other people than Petter, was that the BOS dampers was not up to scratch.
I believe the problem was that they overheated on the stages, which off course drives the performance in a negative direction.
Why this was not fixed, I do not know, but I know that Prodrive as a company wasn´t the worlds best payer off bills at that time, so if it was a lack of founds heading the BOS way, I am not sure.

Prodives own proof of not thinking that their BOS dampers was the best (or was it economical factors?), came when they entered in a later rally, to prove Petter wrong in that the 08-car was slow. The car was then on Öhlins.

It would be interesting to know why Mäkinen will choose Öhlins, and not one of the more straight forward choices like Reiger, Öhlins or Sachs.
If I'm not mistaken, Citroën has been using BOS or their own, but BOS-derived dampers for years, from the C2 S1600 to the DS3 WRC. What's intersting is PSA's turn to Öhlins as of late, but that's OFF here. As far as that goes, I think that with the right amount of money, all the mentioned companies are capable of delivering a damper that is competitive with the others.