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Old Jan 4, 2010 | 09:35 AM
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Hey everyone,

How often are you guys changing your struts? My car has 95,000 miles on the original struts, and I was thinking about replacing all my struts at 100,000 miles with the KYB GR2 struts.

Right now my car rides and handles fine, but I can tell its not AS smooth as it used to be. In getting the KYB GR2, i'm kinda hoping to get a little better handling. Is this likely?

I've been told you should change struts every 50K, which I think is BS, because even at 95K, mine don't bounce all over the place. But 100K seems about right to me. All input is appreciated.

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Old Jan 4, 2010 | 09:43 AM
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Change as needed. You put a lot of miles on you car, so I probably wouldn't go by mileage, I would go by sounds and how well they are holding up.

Plus it's not like you have snow and bad winters to go ahead and eat up at your parts.
 
Old Jan 4, 2010 | 11:58 AM
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Hi `Michael,
Good Question ? ?

Are you smarter then a 5th grader ?
I'm not, I flunked kindergarden

Click the below link on struts & replacement.
Hope it helps
http://ezinearticles.com/?How-Often-...uts?&id=647390
 
Old Jan 4, 2010 | 12:15 PM
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Thanks for the advice/ link! Good read...
 
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