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Old 01-15-2022, 11:08 PM
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I looked into the cheapo ones and realized quickly they will only work for off. Also they won't fit in a lot of places where mine does when doing suspension
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Closing this one out - shocks/struts replaced...




OEM units were Delphi (Spain) as it turns out. The blown one was really shot (of course) - the other one wasn't too bad - still smooth and damping ok but very slow to return to full extension. Not bad after 260,000kms.
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Closing this one out - shocks/struts replaced...




OEM units were Delphi (Spain) as it turns out. The blown one was really shot (of course) - the other one wasn't too bad - still smooth and damping ok but very slow to return to full extension. Not bad after 260,000kms.
Awesome! Looks great. I suppose you can really tell that one strut is dead as it has ZERO rebound. Yikes!

Thanks for the pics!
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Awesome! Looks great. I suppose you can really tell that one strut is dead as it has ZERO rebound. Yikes!

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Actually, the bad unit has negative rebound - it sucks the shaft back in and is extremely hard to pull out!!
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