Projected, PSF-corrected Suzaku temperature profiles of A2163 obtained in NE (solid red diamonds) and SW (dashed blue diamonds) direction. The vertical dashed lines show the jump positions of the detected shocks as obtained from our deprojection procedure while dotted lines correspond to the projected best-fit temperature models (see Sect. 3.2.4 for details about the deprojection). The gray vertical dotdashed line indicates R₅₀₀, as obtained by Radovich et al. (2008) from a weak-lensing analysis.