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Strut / shock absorber front replacement

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Old 09-29-20, 06:15 AM
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Originally Posted by Onsit
If possible you could probably source someone's OEM suspension that has upgraded to aftermarket coilovers. However you should be able to reuse the OEM springs, tempered steel doesn't exactly degrade in the same lifespan as a valved strut assembly. Buy new Struts, compress the springs, and reuse your tophats. On the IS300 the tophats do not have pillow bearings like other Japanese cars do so you can reuse them for quite some time.

On my IS300 I opted to liven it up with Eibach springs, and Bilstein struts. It's very planted, responsive, and coincidentally what the L-tuned version of the vehicle came with.
I am looking to do my suspension shock replacement as well and looking at bilsteins... maybe on black friday sale. A shop told me to have the strut mounts replaced as well, but you are saying don't need to? I do have oem shocks up front with 180k miles and its clunking and leans on turns and recoil oscilation. perhaps its the worthless shocks bottoming out and over extended causing the thumping? what is a sign of the strut mount going bad? I also have kyb rears with unknown mileage on them.
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