Good video. Doing the same job right now, along with shocks (Kyb) and coils (Moog). The bottom bolt on one of the shocks is giving me trouble but I'll muscle it out eventually. It's always the last bolt you get to that gives you the most trouble, lol. The rear area of the HHR is surprisingly easy to work on. The hardest part on the ebrake cable replacement was removing the center console to get to the cable seating mechanism. After that it was maybe 10 minutes tops to install the cable and hook it up to my rear drum brakes
I did hear you say you have a lot of SS parts on it. But by putting all HHR SS Springs and shocks you were able to drop it? I kind of want to drop mine and like how yours look.
Yes I did. I used SS springs front and rear. They are called FE5. The rear shocks are GM FE5, and the struts are KYB, since I couldn't locate new FE5 struts. I love how it handles, and the drop isn't too low.
MY 2007 is at 160k on the clock. I need new shocks on the back. Would you recommend since I already have the shocks off just going ahead and swapping it out?? Maybe even throw some new springs in?
The springs are probably fine, but I bet the snubbers are probably dried out or broke. It's more of an age thing than mileage I think. The materiel gets old and deteriorates.
Are the part numbers 19352221 and 25993737 the same part? When you look at the pictures of the 19352221, they all show the number 25993737 on the back. Can someone help with this? They look identical.
I have a 06 hhr, I was going down the highway an it sounded like something broke on the rear wheel well what could it be, anyone have any ideas? I would greatly appreciate it!!!!
Unfortunately, no, it could literally be any number of things. Shock, spring, axle beam. You really need to get under there and look around to see if anything is broken.
They are not the same part with different numbers? When you look at the pictures of the 19352221, they all show the number 25993737 on the back. Can someone help with this?
I checked my rockauto account for the last comment, that's what I ordered. I'll check again though. Sometimes a new part number supercedes and older one.
