2003 Toyota Camry Suspension Issues

[Bill_G]

Originally Posted By: Nick1994
Originally Posted By: KrisZ
You guys are reading all of his verbal diarrhea?
I do when it's reasonable and not a mile long. When it's a huge wall of text, I usually ignore it and move on, but will sometimes skim it and realize he talks about the same thing over and over again.


Exactly - the help E20 actually needs can't be found on an Internet auto maintenance discussion board. BITOG officials should try to figure out a way to rid the board of his never ending drivel.

 

[mclasser]

I'm just glad I'm FAR away from Michigan and his death trap vehicles.

 

[Nick1994]

Originally Posted By: mclasser
I'm just glad I'm FAR away from Michigan and his death trap vehicles.
Yup. It doesn't get much further away than the East coast and Arizona.

 

[eljefino]

You don't have to take the rear seat out to do struts. You just have to remove the side bolster, and it's one bolt, 12mm iirc, that you can get with a foot-long extension and a willingness to compress the foam that pads the seats to get in there.

 

[Tegger]

Originally Posted By: KrisZ
You guys are reading all of his verbal diarrhea?

Not me. I just copied-and-pasted it into Microsoft Word so that I could get a word count.

MS Word tells me that E20 wrote one single massive paragraph containing a whopping 434 words.

 

[Bladecutter]

Originally Posted By: KrisZ
You guys are reading all of his verbal diarrhea?


When I do read his blocks of crud, I look for the question marks, and only pay attention to the words directly in front of them.

I don't need to know why he is thinking about buying 10 versions of the same part or tool.
I only care about giving him another version of the same answer that he's already ignored from 6 other people.

BC.

 

[engineer20]

How can you tell a part (suspension) is bad by looking at it? I wiped the strut off, so if it gets greasy again, I'll know it's leaking, if not, I guess someone is faking it and lied to me, but when I turned in my ball joint which was intaslled incorrectly the 1st time I installed it and drove on it for a week, before the weekend and properly installing the 2nd one which I exchanged at aap for free, and using a jack to press it in, the guy at the advance auto coudl tell right away it was bad by looking at the boot, the boot wasn't torn, so what trick did he use, he squeezed the boot sort of, how can you tell by inspection if a part is bad or not? the part origianlly was good but went bad due to incorrect installation and driving on the loose ball joint for a week, but then I got the part exchagned and did it correctly and now it's been inspected and the ball joint is fine, though i suspect the control arm bushing has something wrong with it ,but i was told my control arm is fine.

 

[artbuc]

Can you guys help me out? I was in Walmart yesterday talking with the pharmacist and she said I looked like I had lung cancer but she wasn't 100% sur bcause she said he could be over cancer because sometimes they seem the same but then she felt my liver and said if was ok and then she smile my breath and said she was absolutely sure I had lung. Anger but then I went to CVS and th pharmacist said I did not have cancer but I definitely had gout but how can she know fr sure are there tricks that pharmacists have to determine cancer and how com they know these things and th doctors don't know I think doctors are screwing me over bcause I went to 5 different doctors and non of them mentions cancer and only two let me use my Speedperks. So what do,you think, seriously I a being serious because I,have to decide if I take chemo or radiation or both bcause if I take radiation I think I can build my own cry machine from parts I get fo,free and th medical waste dump.

 

[mclasser]

Originally Posted By: engineer20
How can you tell a part (suspension) is bad by looking at it? I wiped the strut off, so if it gets greasy again, I'll know it's leaking, if not, I guess someone is faking it and lied to me, but when I turned in my ball joint which was intaslled incorrectly the 1st time I installed it and drove on it for a week, before the weekend and properly installing the 2nd one which I exchanged at aap for free, and using a jack to press it in, the guy at the advance auto coudl tell right away it was bad by looking at the boot, the boot wasn't torn, so what trick did he use, he squeezed the boot sort of, how can you tell by inspection if a part is bad or not? the part origianlly was good but went bad due to incorrect installation and driving on the loose ball joint for a week, but then I got the part exchagned and did it correctly and now it's been inspected and the ball joint is fine, though i suspect the control arm bushing has something wrong with it ,but i was told my control arm is fine.

Your gimmick and trolling are running dry, pal. Come up with something original.

 

[Bladecutter]

Originally Posted By: engineer20
How can you tell a part (suspension) is bad by looking at it?


Well, for starters, if the piece was originally only one piece, but you are now holding two separate pieces, then that part is bad.

BC.

 

[Bill_G]

Originally Posted By: artbuc
Can you guys help me out? I was in Walmart yesterday talking with the pharmacist and she said I looked like I had lung cancer but she wasn't 100% sur bcause she said he could be over cancer because sometimes they seem the same but then she felt my liver and said if was ok and then she smile my breath and said she was absolutely sure I had lung. Anger but then I went to CVS and th pharmacist said I did not have cancer but I definitely had gout but how can she know fr sure are there tricks that pharmacists have to determine cancer and how com they know these things and th doctors don't know I think doctors are screwing me over bcause I went to 5 different doctors and non of them mentions cancer and only two let me use my Speedperks. So what do,you think, seriously I a being serious because I,have to decide if I take chemo or radiation or both bcause if I take radiation I think I can build my own cry machine from parts I get fo,free and th medical waste dump.


Just rub on some Australian Dream and then spray on some chassis paint - you'll be good for another 5 years.

 

[KrisZ]

Originally Posted By: artbuc
Can you guys help me out? I was in Walmart yesterday talking with the pharmacist and she said I looked like I had lung cancer but she wasn't 100% sur bcause she said he could be over cancer because sometimes they seem the same but then she felt my liver and said if was ok and then she smile my breath and said she was absolutely sure I had lung. Anger but then I went to CVS and th pharmacist said I did not have cancer but I definitely had gout but how can she know fr sure are there tricks that pharmacists have to determine cancer and how com they know these things and th doctors don't know I think doctors are screwing me over bcause I went to 5 different doctors and non of them mentions cancer and only two let me use my Speedperks. So what do,you think, seriously I a being serious because I,have to decide if I take chemo or radiation or both bcause if I take radiation I think I can build my own cry machine from parts I get fo,free and th medical waste dump.


This is actually readable.

 

[qwerty1234]

engineer20, I bet the employees at the auto part stores draw straws to see who will end up waiting on you. There probably all lying to you though anyways.

 

[engineer20]

haha, very funny.
I went to a lot of aaps, advance autos, and they all had the moog rear sway bar bushings in stock! Most of them were made in India, and were newer, but yesterday, this advance auto had OLD and dusty bushings, andthe box looked faded, but the bushings were never open, so it should still be new, but doesn't rubber deteriorate in the box after manufacture, so if it's old, it might not be good? The price is the same, but the catch is, its' MADE IN THE USA! Is made in USA moogs going to be better than the made in india moog bushings, where they probably are currently made, even if it was manufactured before the indian ones? This is like the craftsman china vs US ratchets I asked on my other thread, I was told they switched to chinese made ones in like 2012 or something like that but if they have an older one inthestore that's been sitting since i2012 (unlikely but possible), you're getting the US made one for the same part and that one is higher quality, so should I go with the newer India Made bushings or the US made bushings? I like encouraging american jobs and supporting the economy and all, but if a part/something made in a foreign country is much better than a US part, like many Japanese Electronics, I'll go for the foreign (it's about economics and quality), if it's worse in quality, I"ll go for the US, no questions asked, but what if the made in india bushings are good quality ones? Any opinions on India vs US bushings? It's rubber, so can there really be any major differences?

And I'm thinking about changing the rotors, turns out they were turned at 70k a while back. Should I get carquest wearever rotors, and are they good (i can use speedperks) or toyota oem rotors, and are toyota oem rotors really that much better, andhow do I know I need rotors, if my brake pads are still good and at 80% life inthefront? my drums in the rear are at like 40-50% so I should change those maybe next year, but my front pads are still good, but I was thinking about rotors, and my drum is unturnable, as I took it to an oreilly's a while back, so I'll neeed new drums and shoes next year.

 

[Traction]

In your case, made on the Moon would be an improvement. Or, better yet, just walk. Some people should not be allowed to drive, or own a car, let alone work on one.

 

[Tegger]

Originally Posted By: engineer20
haha, very funny.
I went to a lot of aaps, advance autos, and they all had the moog rear sway bar bushings in stock! Most of them were made in India, and were newer, but yesterday, this advance auto had OLD and dusty bushings, andthe box looked faded, but the bushings were never open, so it should still be new, but doesn't rubber deteriorate in the box after manufacture, so if it's old, it might not be good? The price is the same, but the catch is, its' MADE IN THE USA! Is made in USA moogs going to be better than the made in india moog bushings, where they probably are currently made, even if it was manufactured before the indian ones? This is like the craftsman china vs US ratchets I asked on my other thread, I was told they switched to chinese made ones in like 2012 or something like that but if they have an older one inthestore that's been sitting since i2012 (unlikely but possible), you're getting the US made one for the same part and that one is higher quality, so should I go with the newer India Made bushings or the US made bushings? I like encouraging american jobs and supporting the economy and all, but if a part/something made in a foreign country is much better than a US part, like many Japanese Electronics, I'll go for the foreign (it's about economics and quality), if it's worse in quality, I"ll go for the US, no questions asked, but what if the made in india bushings are good quality ones? Any opinions on India vs US bushings? It's rubber, so can there really be any major differences?

And I'm thinking about changing the rotors, turns out they were turned at 70k a while back. Should I get carquest wearever rotors, and are they good (i can use speedperks) or toyota oem rotors, and are toyota oem rotors really that much better, andhow do I know I need rotors, if my brake pads are still good and at 80% life inthefront? my drums in the rear are at like 40-50% so I should change those maybe next year, but my front pads are still good, but I was thinking about rotors, and my drum is unturnable, as I took it to an oreilly's a while back, so I'll neeed new drums and shoes next year.


Statistics from Microsoft Word on the wall o' text above:
Words: 401
Characters (no spaces): 1,724
Characters (with spaces): 2,127
Paragraphs: 2

Compare that to his previous wall o' text:
Words: 434
Characters (no spaces): 1,746
Characters (with spaces): 2,179
Paragraphs: 1

Sense a pattern emerging?

 

[engineer20]

For those who don't like to read, no [censored]. How are moog made in USA bushings? The normal current ones are made in India, but one Advance had an old looking box of bushings, but it was unopened and it was made in the USA. Is the made in USA one better despite being older, or no, as older=bad rubber, as rubber breaks down after its manufacture over time? Or not much of a difference, since rubber is rubber, doesn't matter if it's made in India or in the US, other than in the US, you're supporting local jobs, and as much as I like supporting the US economy, I like quality and care about that the most, as in if it's made abroad and has higher or comparable quality, i'll take that.

 

[engineer20]

wow bee ess is censored, lol, didn't know that. the language here needs to be super clean, i bet "diety" or higher being, that word, not the d word, might be censored too. i just typed in "beeee esss" and they censored it, 2 letters!

 

[mclasser]

Maybe you should ask the parts counter guy. But he said winter air gets more stale than summer air. Will summer air in the winter make my transmission shift funny? The lady in line at McDonald's yesterday said her boyfriend doesn't use Shell gas since it's bad for alloy wheels. Is this true? She said Made in USA gas doesn't smell as bad as UK gas. Should I get a new engine for my car? Junkyard might be good but I also have $20 in Speedperks. With a 15% discount code can I get it installed in the parking lot for under $50? I have a Harbor Freight hammer and 10 mm wrench so I think I can do it myself.

 

[artbuc]

Originally Posted By: mclasser
Maybe you should ask the parts counter guy. But he said winter air gets more stale than summer air. Will summer air in the winter make my transmission shift funny? The lady in line at McDonald's yesterday said her boyfriend doesn't use Shell gas since it's bad for alloy wheels. Is this true? She said Made in USA gas doesn't smell as bad as UK gas. Should I get a new engine for my car? Junkyard might be good but I also have $20 in Speedperks. With a 15% discount code can I get it installed in the parking lot for under $50? I have a Harbor Freight hammer and 10 mm wrench so I think I can do it myself.


Excellent! You are definitely getting a good feel for this.