cartman57

Interesting.........................IIRC the ones I purchased for our 04 had different #'s for right and left from NAPA

RX330inFL

They are different Right from Left, however, for some reason Sewell is showing the same for 2005 as 2009. My example concentrated on the same corner and listed for FWD and AWD.

ahornick

Cartman57,Can you tell me if the entire side panel is to be removed or just the plastic area just over the top of the strut? I am thinking I have to take off the entire side cover which has a hard plastic area over the strut tower. I don't want to be pulling on the whole panel if only the smaller plastic area has to be removed. Appreciate the help. I am only stressing accessing the upper bolts, the rest of the removal/installation, not so much.

cartman57

10-4

cartman57

Just the small cover to access the bearing mount nuts, not the whole side panel.

RockfordRX

I only had to remove the top plastic cover and had no problems getting my socket through the holes to reach the 3 strut mount nuts. The one I had a problem with (which you shouldn't because I forgot to tighten the top nut on the strut securing it to the mount, so I had to access it through a top cover after everything was installed - I had to cut and widen the center hole since the larger socket wouldn't fit through).

Lesson learned - make sure the top nut of the strut keeping the spring and the strut mount in place is tightened to spec BEFORE you install the strut.

Good luck!

Max

handydandy

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