After a series of quantitative measurements on different cars simulating rollover accidents on the roads, Monroe, always taking the lead in shock absorber safety, has created the Monroe Reflex, a revolutionary shock absorber that will increase the stability in your car as well as your customer’s cars, ensuring constant tyre-to-tyre contact when you need it most, especially during curves and emergency maneuvers. Test conducted with an independent organization showed that, in emergency maneuvers, the Monroe Reflex shock absorber almost twice as stable and twice as safe as standard shock absorbers.

The ride characteristics experienced with any suspension set up usually means an inescapable compromise between comfort and handling. In general, good handling requires firm damping from the shock absorber, while maintaining a comfortable ride requires a shock absorber with softer damping characteristics.

The design of the new Monroe Reflex has a refine valving system, which maintains excellent vehicle stability, and handling whilst delivering a high level of comfort for all vehicle occupants. This has been achieved by the introduction of Twin Disc Technology which is a valving refinement that is present in both compression and rebound.

In technical terms, the first disc set in the compression valve restricts oil flow at low piston rod speeds (e.g. Highway lane change) resulting in a firm, stable maneuver at any vehicle speed.

At increased piston rod speeds (e.g. bumps or potholes) the first disc set instantaneously lifts, where upon a second disc then sets arrests vehicle motion maintaining vehicle stability. A high degree of comfort is achieved by this decoupling effect.

Similarly in rebound, the valving incorporates a newly designed disc stack with a tri-edged rebound disc. This disc restricts movement of the first valving stage, allowing a small degree of disc “blow off” all three points on the disc. As piston rod velocities increase, the subsequent valving stages activate, cushioning harsh road inputs and controlling suspension movements.

The combination of the valving refinements in both compression and rebound result in a shock absorber that is able to deliver ride comfort combined with excellent handling attributes.

Benefits of using Monroe Reflex

• Stabilizes the car faster by responding instantly to the smallest motion
• TWICE as stable which is proven scientifically
• Help to control roll and oversteering
• Long life design
• Gas charged

Perfect Path drift 0		Reflex Path Average drift 0.43 degrees		Standard Path Average drift 6.66 degrees
Perfect Path is a car's ideal trajectory on the road. The drift angle reflects the meters per second that the car will move away from the ideal trajectory it should be on.		With Monroe Reflex™ shock absorbers the drift angle is only 0.13 meters per second, which means that the car only diverges 0.43° from the perfect path and will come back to the ideal trajectory without crashing into any obstacles.		With standard shock absorbers the drift angle is almost 2 meters per second (a deviant of 6.66° from the perfect path!).