anyone else

[toontowncivic]

I was just curious does anyone elses struts knock whever you go over a bump? Atleast I think it is thestruts...anyways, does anyone know if this is a bad thing? everyone I talk to says it doesn't matter but I have a feeling it could be! thanks

[emil13si]

My rear strut bar that is in the trunk between the shock absorbers squiks and I just hate that
I must do something about that maybe spray it with some stuff :flash:
Exapt that I scrach on every little bump on the road with my lower front strut bar and squicking sound of my rear strut bar everything is normal :silly2: :silly2: :silly2: if you could say that :sun:

[1PhatCX]

Originally posted by emil13si
My rear strut bar that is in the trunk between the shock absorbers squiks and I just hate that
I must do something about that maybe spray it with some stuff :flash:
Exapt that I scrach on every little bump on the road with my lower front strut bar and squicking sound of my rear strut bar everything is normal :silly2: :silly2: :silly2: if you could say that :sun:

Scratching?? that aint good! lol

[mdnnccivicrcr]

I noticed when I put my strut tower brace on my plymouth when I hit one certain curve on my way to work my front passenger side strut pops

[toontowncivic]

I don't have strut bars. It is just a knocking every time I hit a bump in the road! I figured this was pretty common...I wonder how nice it would sound if it didn't do that....

[gunnmen01]

Have you checked to see if your struts are blown?


gunnmen01

[toontowncivic]

as dumb as this may sound, how do i tell if they are blown?:flash:

[H4Bangin]

mine do that and my girlfriends accord does it my friends hatch does it too i dont know what it is

[slammed89civic]

that my friend is the sound of your struts bottoming out, in other words its kind of like a subwoofer voice ciol hitting that magnet under high power, this is called "bottoming out" so your struts metal bars are hitting the bottom of there canisters because they are blownyou should replace that in a hurry bcause i have seen a couple of cases where peeps have hit a large bump, there struts bottomed out and they warped or actually broke the strut mounting spot under the hood off of the car......it had to ahve been something huge they hit, but i could imagine hat you could stil bent the mounting spots thru time

[toontowncivic]

well I think that if that is the case and my car has been doing that for a year now I should maybe look into getting them replaced...huh! well thanks..do you know how much struts are? could I do it myself?

[slammed89civic]

strut prices vary widley, but whatever you get make sure they are made for a lowered car, or else you will ahve the same problem again in about 2-3 months after replacing them

[slammed89civic]

oh and as far as replacing them yourself goes,run out and get yourself a decent service manual, i reccomend helms, but a haynes and even a chiltos will work if thats all you can get, i looked over the steps in my chiltons to assure that someone who has never done suspension work could understand them, and you should be able to, and replacing the struts is a fairly simple thing to do, if you are machanically incline you should be able to do it without the manual, although it is nice to have one within arms reach just in case

[toontowncivic]

Hey thanks a lot for the help. I will have to get that done as soon as I can! Hopefully I can find something locally for a lowered car...I live in Saskatchewan Canada so I think my resources might be a little limited!

[slammed89civic]

just get on ebay and buy some there, but i would never ever buy used struts because struts are too east to blow out and you cant take peoples words on item descrition anymore, so make sure you buy new struts

[BLU CIVIC]

what's the best dampers for lowered cars??