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Originally Posted by oldskewel
I would definitely re-use them on my car. I recently did that actually, on my 2001 with 203k+ miles. I'm in CA with no rust issues.
An additional thing you can do to give yourself confidence that no plastic deformation has occurred is to see if you can easily thread things together with your fingers. Plastic deformation will be uneven, making that impossible over a long depth.
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I was referring to your comment above:
"but re-using would surely logically depend on corrosion, age, mileage, etc. as well, but that is not given here"
and my high mileage and age of the car