>This is a case of knowing just enough about a topic to be dangerous.

>Entering the higher shaft velocity part of the damper curve doesn’t mean the suspension is handling it “better”. The high speed behavior of the valving simply means the damping forces aren’t increasing linearly with shaft velocity. They trade extra travel for reduced peak forces.

>If the speed bump is tall enough and the bump stops get completely compressed you could bottom out the damper, which is not good for it.

Oh the irony!

In practice none of the suspension parts on any car are in any danger until you run out of up travel and determining where the deflection will happen becomes a competition between the air in your tire and the suspension components.

No automotive suspension is designed so that the damper bottoms out. You'll have an external bump stop somewhere, sometimes on the damper shaft, in any case the damper itself isn't bottoming out, you'd know, probably even hear it specifically if it did.

Regularly traveling rough roads, hitting rumble strips, comically out of round tires or anything else that creates oscillation is going to be way, way, way worse for component longevity (dampers, bushings, etc) than a hard bump from time to time.

Source: live it