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Car Vibrating badly

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bcrosby51

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Like the title says, my car is vibrating badly. It is mainly when I am at highway speeds. It is worse when I am on the gas, when I let of the gas if goes away. When I go over bumps, the front sounds pretty clankey and the steering is a little loose too, like if I am on the highway and hit the gas the car will try to pull one way and I have to counter steer a little. It is a 2000 GP GT with 150,000. I have been told it needs new struts. I am pretty sure they are the orignals. I am going to replace them myself. Is there any write up on that? What all do I need to rebuild worn out suspension beside new struts?
 


check tie rods (inner and outer), ball joints,and wheel bearings. Get quick struts and it's really easy to change, just 2 bolts at the spindle and the4 under the hood
 
grab the wheel while both are off the ground, and the steering column unlocked (key on not running) if something moves before everything else does it's bad, you will need an alignment after doing the struts anyway
 
So, pricing the quick struts compared to just struts is a difference of about $450 ($680 compared to $200). I have a new baby so looking to do things as cheap as possible. Is it bad to use the old strut hardware? I am not to concerned with the extra time it will take to swap it over. It is an old car that I plan to sell soon, just want it to ride smooth again.
 
really you should do the mounts if they are that bad (they have a rubber piece and bearings that wear at about the same rate as the struts)
 


You don't save much at all piecing together assemblies and just buying quickstruts, been there done that. If your installing struts, do the mounts and bearings too, if you don't your asking for trouble later on. I know of many people who have just done the struts, then ended up tearing the car down a few months later to do the mounts. Not worth it IMO, do it all the first time and do it right.

Heres what I personally recommend, if you plan on doing lowering springs, piece together your kit and get the mounts, bearing, struts, etc. If your just going back with stock ride height, just get the quickstruts and be done with it...
 
If only I had $680 : (

That thing with the quickstruts is you are paying for new springs too, do I really need new springs? I could buy new struts and bearing plates for a lot less than $680.
 
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