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New GXP owner

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stinger440

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Hey everyone. I've been reading everything I could on here for a couple months while I shopped for a car. I just purchased an 08 GXP. I have always driven a truck and decided I wanted something different/fun to commute with. This car is very fun to drive. I love the V8 sound. I do have a couple quick noobie questions.
1. The ride is stiff. Now I realize the ride should be stiff, but anytime I hit a somewhat square edge it sounds horrible like the front end is bottoming. For example railroad tracks are bad or running over a man hole cover at speed. If I am just rolling through it like in a parking lot its fine. I want to think struts, but I can barely get the car to move bouncing on it so I would think they are ok. Any ideas are appreciated.
2. This also has to do with ride quality. The previous owner has 225/50/18's on all 4 corners. Could the fact that is not the proper tire of 255/45/18's be causing some of my ride problems? Is there any issue running the 225's on all 4 corners?

Like I said I am used to driving a Ford truck and not a car so I can't really diagnose whats correct and whats not at this point. I'm sure I will have a lot more questions to ask as I figure it out.
 


1. Might be sway bushing causing some of the clunking. Could also be control arm bushing or strut mounts.

2. The factory sizes are 255/45 fronts and 225/50 rears because the rims are 18x8 fronts and 18x7 rears, its cheaper and a better idea to run 245/45/18 all the way around so you can rotate the tires like a normal car. You can still run the tires that are on the car all the way around.
 
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Welcome, I also have an 08 GXP. I had a 04 GTP before and several others. The ride from the GTP to the GXP is different. I love my GXP but the ride is stiff. The bilstein struts are made to ride firm, I asked the same question about mine. Post some pics!
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HA. Nice. I like the red. Mine is plain ole silver. I understand firm. I'm pretty sure mine is bottoming. Love the car and I'm not going to let a rough ride or a little maintenence scare me away. I plan to keep this one for a long time.
 


They're Soo affordable now. Lol.

Too bad Canuck decided to discontinue their GXP springs. I bet if they'd held out alotta new GXPowners on here would a bought them.
 
I love my Canuck springs. Really lowered the **** out of it. Rides pretty rough, though.
 


Well after doing some more checks, it looks like my front drivers, side strut is bad. I believe thats why I have been having bottoming/floating issues. Going to order up a new set and see how that works. I'm really tempted to go cheap with a monroe sensatrac strut, but then again you can't have a car like this and turd it up with wal-mart parts.
 
Ok this is the dumbest noob question ever. What color should the rear struts on the GXP be? I would assume they would be yellow. While crawling around my car I noticed the rear struts were black. There were not tags on them at all. I'm thinking in the 5 year history of the car they got changed out for a monroe shock, but I want to make sure before I replace them.
 
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