I've read through as many posts as I could about quick struts.
My predicament is my 2011 sienna needs strut bearings. At 130k or however many miles it has, the strut bellows boots are also destroyed. It drives fine but there's no sense in buying $90 mounts, $10 boot kits and not replacing the struts.
I worked at a dealer for a long time so my parts guy there quoted me my employee price still...about $260 per side to do my mounts, struts, and bellows boots.
Monroe and KYB quick struts are about $110 a side.
As a tech I never loved quick struts, seemed to be noisey and fail too quick, throw the ride height off and make me wonder if they use a spring for many different "close enough" applications. But at that price difference it's hard to not want to do quick struts.
I asked a couple independent shops we deal with (I'm in a government fleet shop now, so a little out of touch with what is good in the real word) and two said they like Napa and Monroe (which judging my Napa part numbers, they ARE Monroe's parts). One prefers KYB.
Anyone know what is the oem manufacture Toyota uses for strut parts? I can't remember for sure but I know we use some Monroe stuff at my shop and find it to be junk, but maybe it's the line of stuff we use?
Any advice or opinions greatly appreciated.
My predicament is my 2011 sienna needs strut bearings. At 130k or however many miles it has, the strut bellows boots are also destroyed. It drives fine but there's no sense in buying $90 mounts, $10 boot kits and not replacing the struts.
I worked at a dealer for a long time so my parts guy there quoted me my employee price still...about $260 per side to do my mounts, struts, and bellows boots.
Monroe and KYB quick struts are about $110 a side.
As a tech I never loved quick struts, seemed to be noisey and fail too quick, throw the ride height off and make me wonder if they use a spring for many different "close enough" applications. But at that price difference it's hard to not want to do quick struts.
I asked a couple independent shops we deal with (I'm in a government fleet shop now, so a little out of touch with what is good in the real word) and two said they like Napa and Monroe (which judging my Napa part numbers, they ARE Monroe's parts). One prefers KYB.
Anyone know what is the oem manufacture Toyota uses for strut parts? I can't remember for sure but I know we use some Monroe stuff at my shop and find it to be junk, but maybe it's the line of stuff we use?
Any advice or opinions greatly appreciated.