well explained, clean environment, but I will never use a locking pliers to hold the new strut, it damages the chrome and then the seal. Use the allen and a open wrench.
😮this is excellent I just bought an 2006 imperza 2.5i as fun daily winter car maybe. I do need desperately change same side plus others too. I was hesitant on what i need how to do, because I found parts car to swap over. Am wanting go with KYB mounts rear an front. How hard is it just replace top mounts👍 I thought this host would've been Sue 😕doing the replacement an video😅😊😅 ✌👍 Description would've had tool parts list not in video😅✌👍 Still fun good video. Looking forward doing this i just make room in my space for my car.
Great video but as a customer I'd ask you please take off your dirty gloves when reinstalling the seats or wear a new clean pair the seats are a lighter color and get dirty very easily
So I have a 2008 Impreza hatchback, and something similar is happening with me, only that the shock was just super worn out, I replaced the shock last night and now the tire is hitting the wall even more, I had bought the right shock and everything too so I don’t know what to do
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+TraplordFTW We don't have a how-to video for your vehicle right now, but the basic steps in this video should be enough to do this task. Buy this part for your vehicle on 1AAuto.com: 1aau.to/m/Shop-1AAuto-c
This thing has more rust than our 1958 VW Beetle that was left under a tree for 35 years. (Thats not Hyperbole, im being serious - Salt on roads is a horrible way to deal with snow - Heated highways much better idea. )
For the nut under the seat belt, would a crowfoot wrench on a torque wrench work? The torque would not be applied directly at the center of rotation, so the force won't be right, is there be a calculation that could be made to get it right? Or do you get the senior tech with the calibrated elbow to do that last nut?
You could calculate the added leverage from the distance added by the crows foot. Or you could just do what every tech in the world does on strut mounting nuts- never get the torque wrench out of your box for this job. Anyone thats worked on anything for a length of time would just go by feel and experience on this stuff.
The rears aren't very compressed by the strut itself like the fronts are on these cars for whatever reason. The spring is kinda just sitting in there when the assembly is out of the car. I don't know if this is the case for every car, so I always put the spring compressor on and compress until the spring pulls away from the strut so I know it's safe to disassemble.
