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Originally Posted by LivNLearn
I just jacked the car up on each side and using a pry bar under the tire am able to get 1/2 to 1 inch of vertical movement of the tire/wheel/strut assembly. I can actually see the entire strut moving up and down with a light clunk at each end of travel. It appears that the strut mounts are wasted.
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I’m trying to visualize what you’re doing…are you compressing the spring and damper piston when you’re prying or is the spring/piston not compressing and moving the same amount as the strut body? The strut top mount bearing design isn’t the best.
However, it’s a good time to replace the oem top mounts with a set of street camber plates. Vorshlag, Ground Control and Millway make camber plates that work with stock springs. If you’re not tracking your car, Millway makes a street version that should not increase NVH at all, allow you to properly align front camber (same value left and right or increase it to something reasonable around -2.5 deg), and eliminate a common issue.