I feel your pain. I have struggled for years to find a quick strut that provides the same OEM ride as the original set installed at the factory. This problem seems to be across the board on all cars. I own a 2008 Lucerne and my first experience with quick struts were from detroit axle. These were horribly jarring. I immediately took them off and got a set by Monroe. These were a bit better but like you I felt every imperfection in the road and rode with them for a few years. Then the bearing caps failed and I very recently put on Gabriel quick struts. Again these were better than the monroes but still not the OEM ride I was looking for. So, It seems that these companies all use the same coil and just put their struts in the package. What is even worse is that when you research the coil that GM (remember I have a Lucerne) lists are actually three different types - Soft, Firm, Sport. When you shop for a quick strut though the coils all tend to be the firm type. There is no distinction in the types of coils and all the strut companies glorify their strut and do not talk about the coils. I would also have to bring up the possibility of other suspension components might be worn out. Specifically your control arms or ball joints. I replaced my control arms. On the lucerne the control arm includes all the bushings including the ball joints. This did provide some improvement in the fact that large bumps in the road are not as pronounced but still noticeable. I do not think there are any quick struts available that honestly do provide the OEM feel of the suspension. You will probably be forced to either live with what you have or actually build up a pair of struts from exact OEM coils. As for removing and installing coils, Although it can be dangerous, It is only dangerous to those not taking some basic precautions. If you take your time and understand what you are doing you can replace the coils. Pay good attention though to the tool you purchase to compress the struts. If you really are not comfortable then just take all your components to a shop and have them do it for you. The way I view this is - I have the guts to crawl under my car while being held up with some jack stand to work on things so compressing a coil is no more dangerous than that.
@chios1958Ай бұрын
Next time you take off original struts, take them to a shop and have them swap old shock with new one. Shops will do this for you for a few buck’s . By reusing original coil springs, you keep same height. A quick strut may throw the height off and give a different ride . This may be the cause of the noise. Not 100% sure unless I see it, but a possibility.
@Faced1111Ай бұрын
This is my problem right now, i could rent a spring compressor or rather a few but tbh its hard for me to justify the cost of full nissan parts or even going with something like bilsteins and building them with the old springs then buying new bearings and mounts when it would cost nearly double than a monroe quick-strut....even buying monroe struts and rebuilding them with the nissan springs and mounts is still much more expensive. Im also at a loss of what to do.
@chadrides914Ай бұрын
My USA made brand new Monroe quick struts pop and click from time to time. The oem strut never did. And I too despise the AI internet now. This is on a Toyota Tacoma though.