Ausmartin1
13-09-2008, 06:49 PM
Hi All,
I started to get a noisy strut on rebound off 10kmph speed humps on the RHS (other noise was fixed by Sway bar links from Whiteline for VXII)
On the Strut Mount - There is a Rubber support with bearing above each front strut.
Does any one please know the service limit ?
From other posts ~ 20mm is total failure from what I can understand.
I have approx 7-8mm movement from ground to wheels off ground.
When new it was it was virtually 0mm movement.
(Now mine are near 7 years old with nearly 60K of city driving).
A suspension place I rang says these are a wear item and by design they do wear & collapse.
I've gone through the service manual and can't find anything as to when a wear limit is reached and I am suprised that they wouldn't at least a 100K
After all if you took the car on some harsh country roads it appears you wouldn't even get to 20K - which I do find vey hard to believe that GMH would do that when the warranty was 3 years/100K.
At what point do I really consider replacing them / or put a quickstrut kit in + the harder Pedders 5851 ?
(Not keen on the non rubber types as the steering geometry requires these struts to pivot about a-bit, compared to other fixed -bolted mounting types.)
Anyone with more input/information, please feel free to write.
I started to get a noisy strut on rebound off 10kmph speed humps on the RHS (other noise was fixed by Sway bar links from Whiteline for VXII)
On the Strut Mount - There is a Rubber support with bearing above each front strut.
Does any one please know the service limit ?
From other posts ~ 20mm is total failure from what I can understand.
I have approx 7-8mm movement from ground to wheels off ground.
When new it was it was virtually 0mm movement.
(Now mine are near 7 years old with nearly 60K of city driving).
A suspension place I rang says these are a wear item and by design they do wear & collapse.
I've gone through the service manual and can't find anything as to when a wear limit is reached and I am suprised that they wouldn't at least a 100K
After all if you took the car on some harsh country roads it appears you wouldn't even get to 20K - which I do find vey hard to believe that GMH would do that when the warranty was 3 years/100K.
At what point do I really consider replacing them / or put a quickstrut kit in + the harder Pedders 5851 ?
(Not keen on the non rubber types as the steering geometry requires these struts to pivot about a-bit, compared to other fixed -bolted mounting types.)
Anyone with more input/information, please feel free to write.