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Old 01-04-2010, 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 01-04-2010, 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.
 
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Old 01-04-2010, 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
 
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Old 01-04-2010, 12:15 PM
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Thanks for the advice/ link! Good read...
 
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