HELP! How do you know if you have a blown strut?

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  1. Yang
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    Yang Well-Known Member

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    If you push it in and it doesn't come back right? What about if you push it in but comes slowly up? HELP ME :(

    Yia
     
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    From what my brother told me, if you press your weight down on an edge of the car and it bounces more than twice-thrice before evening out, then your strut on that corner of the car is blown.

    When I changed out my springs on my old GC Impreza, the car drove fine over bumps. But when I had it taken off the car and the spring dissasembled off of it, I would apply pressure to the strut and it wouldn't decompress back out. Dead.[xx(] Still, it drove fine afterwards.
     
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    thanks fong:D, one is dead:(
     
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    What are ya getting for new struts?
     
  5. Yang
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    I got the used kyb agx. seems like the dude goes to the track a lot.

    YIA
     
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    Fortunately those things are cheap to replace. I don't suggest replacing them singly though. Best to replace all four at the same time. If anything replace the pair on that axle.

    I've had mine on my car for a few years now and beat the hell out of them on rough gravel roads and never lost one. They also use them on club rally cars a lot because they're cheap to replace but they last several races usually. How old are those struts?
     
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    the dude said he had it on for 15k, so I'm assuming 1 year or so