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Hello. I am going to be replacing the struts on my 2002 Toyota Avalalon XL. I am trying to decide between the Monroe Sensa Trac strut and the KYB GR2 strut. The car has a lot of shimmy at high speeds. I prefer a more comfortable, smooth ride. I am older and not looking to make this in to a sports car. Just want to restore the ride to the way it was when I bought it. Any help with this decision is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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Replying to: bigroz8000 (May 15, 2009 6:07 am) if you mean the car wanders around the road, new struts might help that but this is often an alignment or front end bushing issue. Bad struts will give you a "wallowing" feeling (pitching, moving side to side, bouncing up and down) when braking, going around turns, or over bumps. In other words, bad struts show up when the suspension is under some stress.
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Replying to: Mr_Shiftright (May 15, 2009 6:14 am)
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Replying to: bigroz8000 (May 15, 2009 10:12 am)
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Replying to: Mr_Shiftright (May 15, 2009 11:36 am)
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Replying to: bigroz8000 (May 15, 2009 12:27 pm) As for strut mounts, they can be inspected when the strut is off. In the rear, I'd look for rusted mount bolts or cracked rubber. If the rubber mount and studs look clean and healthy,you are good. In the front, there's the addition of not only rubber and studs to look at, but a BEARING in the mount that lets the wheels turn on the strut. Here, too, I'd only replace these based on some visible defects---or in the case of the front strut, if you get "memory steering", which means you turn the wheel and everything's fine but when you expect the wheel to come back to the straight position after the turn, it may hesitate to do so and feel stiff. That's usually a bad steering mount bearing. Boge or Bilstein is 2X the shock of the other too, and worth the price. If you have no choices, I'd go with the KYB GR2s.
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Replying to: Mr_Shiftright (May 15, 2009 2:08 pm) |
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Has anyone experienced several malfunction/warning lights coming on at the same time, without any prior event that might have caused this (such as a panic stop, etc.)? I started my 2005 Avalon one morning last week, after it sat unused overnight, and found that the "check engine", "VSC" and traction control warning lights all illuminated. The same warning lights continue to come on since then and I have since discovered that the adaptive cruise control is also not working ("E3" code displays when attempting to engage cruise control). Car is being serviced today, by dealer - technician seems clueless at this point about what would cause this and wants to charge me for the electronics diagnosis which they claim is not covered under the Toyota extended warranty (7 years, 100K miles) I have. Anyone else have this happen to their car?
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Replying to: gohawaiian (May 19, 2009 4:38 pm) As for the charge to diagnose, isn't this deducted from the bill if you choose to have it fixed?
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