I hit a big ass pot hole yesterday and later last night I started to get this god awful squeak from my front passenger side. This morning I looked under the hood to see if I could find the problem and I now know where the noise is coming from. On the passengerside strut, if you put your finger on the actual bolt and screw in the middle of the strut (NOT the ones that attach the assembly to the frame of the car) and push on the finder you can hear and feel the squeak It also looks like its not really centered in the hole of the frame. I need someone to go look at theirs and tell me if they are both centered (passenger and driver side). My driverside is nice and centered but the other doesn't look like it is now. By centered I mean if you are looking at the top of the strut there are the 3 bolts that hook the strut/spring assembly and then there is the big silver piece in the middle with a thin ring of a black rubber looking boot....the black ring is nice and even on the driverside and the passengerside one is not....it sits more towards the front center of the car Can someone look for me?!?!

 

i hate to be the bearer of bad news, but those are both supposed to be centered, unless you've adjusted the camber on your wheels. i double checked mine just to be sure. sorry bud.

 

Damn I was afraid of that....I wonder if I bent something or just knocked it out of place I have not adjusted my cambers...just have the CT springs and sways....shit!

 

yeah I just chcekd mine.. supposed to be cenetered... that really sucks man, maybe it just needs to be realigned? try taking out the whole strut assmebly and reinstalling it...

 

Yeah I am going to go to the place that installed my springs and see what they think and or can do for me...I hope nothing is bent

 

I am going to Acura today after 1 so I will let yall know the damage. Then I will call the construction crew that is doing the road work and see if I cant get them to pick up the bill

 

ooh man, that really sucks that you got to go through all that... I nailed a pot hole and bent a freaking aftermarket rim... I never chased after the construction company... I just bought a new rim.

Chew them out.. hope they pick up your tab.

Smitty

 

Yeah its actualy the parish thats doing the construction so I dont think anything will come from it but i will try anyway.

 

Learn to drive redneck.

 

Ahh yes such wisdom you have chinaman...I knew it was only a matter of time before you chimed in hahahahaha. I know how to drive....the city needs to learn how to fill in fawking holes that they make.

 

Thought you said it was the nuns at church, not the city...LOL Geesh...
Don't yell at the church, but go after the city

Smitty

 

if it makes you feel any better, there was a 4x4 piece of lumber laying across the highway just as i crested a hill. i nailed it at abour 80 mph, bent the sh#t out of my rims too. but no flat, at least not until the bead popped of my right front. but that's while i had it sitting in my garage.

 

Same here, I hit a damn wood stud on the freeway at around 90MPH. Luckily, I only got flat tire and off alignment.

Dealer help me fixed the flat (at my cost $10.00 - no warranty), but do the alignment for ........FREE.

Don't mention about the pot-hole to the service guy.

 

Yeah the dealer told me to go to Firestone (have life time alighnment on the car) and have them look st see how bad it is off and they can tell if something is bent or not...I dont know...I guess ill go there tomorrow.

 

Smitty in New Orleans they do not have counties, they have parishes. I am from New Orleans and when I took my car to visit one summer I scratched my freaking rim, and my car was only a week old, New Orleans streets suck.

 

 

No, you just suck!

 

If the bolt is not centered and it is squeaking, that my friend is the sign of a bent shaft for the dampers (shocks)...sorry to say, let us know how it turns out...

den

 

if anyone is intrested in the eibach upper strut bars check out the black market forum

 

haha pimpin is sneakin' his ads in...

if it is a bent shaft then it'll only cost you about $200 to fix (with install I'm guessing) you should go over to atl.com and see what tim and get you a deal on a stock strut for...

 

 

Yeah thats what I am thinking...I hope its something simple and I can just get it from tim and have someone install it for me other than Acura. Ill let yall know

Moo....ummm yeah but I hear you cousin is much better at it...hook me up -_-