Time for new Struts on my 2020 Frontier. I do have extended warranty, however I can’t be down a week without the truck. It’s between these two.
Monroe or Gabriel
Monroe or Gabriel
Which strut for 2020 Frontier
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Neither if you can. Oem or billstein and refuse your oem springs, unless you want to hate the way your truck rides. I went with Gabriel ready struts in an Altima and they were horrible. They knocked over bumps and rode like a wagon. I’ve got billsteins waiting for the weather to break and they’ll go in my 18 rogue and will reuse all oem parts. Assuming the bearings are good, which I think they are.
Mine sounds like the front end is falling apart over bumps. Checked everything out and no issues so I believe it’s the strut mounts, however I don’t have the strut compressor here. Truck rides like a truck.
Well you've got the South Park presidential candidates there: a Turd Sandwich or a Giant Douche.
If you must limit yourself to those, I'd take Gabriel over Monroe. Keep your old units for the springs.
I put 5100s on an '18 that had leaking OEM at 30k
If you must limit yourself to those, I'd take Gabriel over Monroe. Keep your old units for the springs.
I put 5100s on an '18 that had leaking OEM at 30k
There are a lot of things that can cause what you describe, but struts are not high on the list. Are you sure the sway bar hardware and control arm bushings are in order?
Save your money until you can do better than either of those.
Yes I have been all under the truck checking. I will be pulling bumper off soon to check all bolts from the engine install next. I am getting cupping if I don’t rotate regularly and a vibration on certain roads, so I know that it’s time for struts anyway. I am ordering sway bar links today just cause they are stiff and not moving freely.
Not on extended warranty. When I was talking to the service writer she acted like I voided my extended warranty cause I do deliveries. She knows this cause I have delivered there.
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I went with KYB and reused my factory springs. Yes that's the hard way, but my ride hight stayed the same that way.
Monroe. My reasoning being that at least you can tighten the top bolt if you want to. The Gabriel's I have used you can't do that due to no wrench flat. Don't know if that is still true, since it's been several years, and I have no idea if that's universal.
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100% this.
I'd want to dig into stabilizer bar end links and everything The Critic mentioned first. Front end / suspension issues are very uncommon on the Frontier. I don't believe I've ever heard of anyone needing to change front struts on a 6yr/old one.
Gabriel has worked well for me..
I don’t either. I’ll remove the struts and take them to the shop and pay to have the new struts put in. The shop quoted me $100, which is well worth it.
Typically that’s due to crap springs. I used ready struts and then swapped in the Oem spring later and that fixed the issue. Why a company can’t make a decent whole unit is beyond me. It’s almost like they go out of their way to sell you garbage knowing what the results would be. Mando is probably the only ready strut that’s decent. And I use the word decent very loosely.
On a 2020? That’s way too new to go with Monroe or Gabriel. Gabriel ultra used to be a good shock. I bought a set not long ago and was very disappointed. I have purchased several Monroe and did like the Monroe reflex, which is not shown in your choices. I’d only buy those if you were planning on ditching the truck in 20k miles. Sorry.
another vote for Beilstein, look at 5100s.
