Masterpro Strut Assemblies Complete Strut Assembly Part # 32ty1104 Review

MegaDork
8/27/19 x:05 a.m.

Heading out of town this weekend using our daughters 07 S60 to tow our popular upward camper.  Simply had the vehicle a couple of months.  I know the shocks need replacing presently and was planning on waiting until I was off over either Thanksgiving or Xmas.  But I recollect things have of a sudden changed.  We got new tires yesterday and they said we needed shocks as ane of the fronts was leaking.  Well, I was planning it soon anyhow.  But I've only got the call, the auto is vibrating badly on and off so it's not tire residuum.  So, I may need to exercise an emergency strut bandy.  Our local O'Reilly'due south has Principal pro complete units built upwardly with a leap, top mount the works.  That would make it a whole lot easier.  I normally but use Koni, Bilstein or OEM for shocks and struts as they are both a safety and a performance particular.  But given the tight time and that they happen to be in stock locally, are they whatever good?

Used to be Monroe, and no, they are garbage. NAPA should deport KYB, which should at least exist okay-ish.

Thx dude. I hoped you chime in.

BTW, reading what you are saying once more.  the are probably Monroe.  Non finding KYB's in stock and if I'm going to practise this before we go information technology needs to be wrapped up tomorrow night to pack on Weds.  The all-time shipping on RockAuto would be WEds night.

They stopped by work and dropped the car off on me and took mine instead.  I'm going to find some bad roads at lunchtime and run across.

Amazon sells inexpensive struts that are a Visitor called

Detroit Beam

2000 Viii Mile Rd, Ferndale, MI 48220

I bought them once for a flip car so I take no review other than they fit and they were quick to get here.  For yous, in that location may be a cash and carry option.  Mine were shipped straight from Eight Mile Rd so the inventory is there.

Amazon toll is $166 for the pair ( $83 each) front and  $48 per pair ($24 each) rear

$208 for all iv pieces

Figure that includes $10-$20 shipping likewise.  Cash and carry might be cheaper.

tuna55 MegaDork
8/27/19 11:05 a.m.

Please don't take the word of the tire tech guy. It'due south probably fine for a while yet.

tuna55 said:

Please don't take the word of the tire tech guy. Information technology's probably fine for a while yet.

New tires and now vibration sounds like lug nut or wheel weight barbarous off.

tuna55 MegaDork
8/27/19 xi:24 a.m.

In answer to John Welsh :

Right. Non at all like a blown damper.

OK guys trust me, I wouldn't trust them to diagnose a flat tire unless I saw it myself.  I'll tell you why I think it's a blown strut.  First, the automobile is 12 years old with 100K miles on the original shocks/struts.  Second, it did it to me once before the tires were replaced.  I was on the freeway on some really crappy but unbroken concrete.  You know, where they grind lines into the surface.  It did it until a few hundred yards past the poor surface when I also slowed down.  Third, there is evidence of fluid escaping the strut.  No matter what, new shocks and struts all circular are in social club before the end of the year.

What I think happens is that a very high frequency input, such equally the ridges on the concreate provide an input that the blown (or in the procedure of blowing) struts tin't go on upwardly with.  That prepare's up an undamped vibration that won't go abroad until you do something major like stop, change speed dramatically or something that get information technology's well abroad from that range when it and so settles down and behaves again.

I went out at tiffin time and tin can't strength it to do it over again, although now typing this I'm slapping myself for not heading to the flake of freeway where it did it to me the other calendar week.  It's amazing how the obvious can take hold of up with you afterward the fact.

I can't find anything decent that I can get in fourth dimension for a reasonable cost, so I think I'thou going back to plan A and getting some Bilsteins adjacent month. They are driving up before me on Thursday, so I'g giving them a hard 65mph speed limit.  I will drive it dorsum on Mon.

P.South. it's 100% not a wheel weight or loose lug nut, I know what they feel like and it was there (once) before the tires.  That does remind me though.  I demand to slack off and correctly torque the lug nuts tonight as I'm certain they did them up to approx. x,000,000,000 lb/ft with a berkeleying air gun rather than torquing them properly.

John Welsh said:

Amazon sells inexpensive struts that are a Company called

Detroit Axle

2000 Viii Mile Rd, Ferndale, MI 48220

I bought them one time for a flip car so I have no review other than they fit and they were quick to get here.  For you, at that place may be a cash and carry option.  Mine were shipped straight from Eight Mile Rd and then the inventory is there.

Amazon price is $166 for the pair ( $83 each) front and  $48 per pair ($24 each) rear

$208 for all 4 pieces

Effigy that includes $10-$xx shipping too.  Greenbacks and conduct might be cheaper.

I've had bad feel with Detroit axle berkeleying up my CV rebuild twice.  I trust best quality chinesium before them for annihilation.

If y'all're keeping the car don't cheap out on the struts. But order some Bilsteins and acquit it until and so. Blown factory is amend than 99% of the new garbage stuff.

Javelin said:

If you're keeping the car don't cheap out on the struts. Just gild some Bilsteins and acquit it until and then. Blown manufactory is better than 99% of the new garbage stuff.

YEah, that's what I've decided to do.  I never cheap out on anything performance or rubber related, it'due south just I thought at kickoff it was an emergency must do now situation until they brought me the car.  Having driven it at lunchtime I tin't believe how expert it feels on the new Michelins compared to the 10 year old ones on there when we got it.

I'yard withal interested in peoples thoughts on the symptoms after I added more.  Fright not, Billies are going on by the end of the year, proabbaly earlier.

What kind of shape are the bushings in?

My FWD Volvo experience has taught me to simply utilise OEM/Lemforder strut mounts.

Stock shocks should be Sachs.

I'll bet FCPEuro has complete replacement sets in stock, with a lifetime warranty.

In reply to Javelin :

Good point.  They 'wait' and 'experience' OK when I put information technology upwards in the air and gave it a good jerk, but they are 12 years and 100K sometime.  You remember it could be that?  I did supercede the whole shooting match (control artillery, end links, brawl joints etc.) on my Vovlo C30 at 120K, but that never had these symptoms and while a lighter auto than the S60, it had been beaten on much harder by by driving style than the S60 (I know the one and but previous possessor).

In reply to Adrian_Thompson :

Resonance frequency like you're describing tends to rear it's head when there is requite in a organization. You yanking on a control arm is nothing similar the 3500lb car doing it.

OK, I drove it home and to work this morning, I can't go it do hit the resonant freq once more despite my best efforts.  I threw it upwards on the hoist early this am at work.  Yup, the front end left is leaking.  I can't meet, experience, jerk or woggle annihilation else.  No surprise.  The spring isolator has pretty much disintegrated likewise, so when at full rebound I can wiggle the leap a flake.  I had another look at the bushings, and visibly they are well past their prime.  I'll probably exercise new LCA's, terminate links upper strut mounts the whole shooting match like I did on the C xxx.

Pics, anybody loves pics.

Borked LCA Bushing

The gray part hanging off the jump seat is the remains of the bound isolator.

Yup that's leaking

In reply to Adrian_Thompson :

Bingo bango!

In reply to Javelin :

I'one thousand looking for shocks and struts as well. Is Monroe a decent brand? If not what would you recommend? Thanks in advance

I got all my S60 intermission stuff from IPD www.ipdusa.com.  I tin can't remember which struts used but that car handled swell.  Much to my wife's dismay I would occasionally apply it for demo rides at our racing school.

In reply to David419 :

Monroe is literally garbage. Bilstein is the "everyman end" I would go on struts these days.

In respond to David419 :

Shock absorbers on a canoe?  Cool!

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