Originally Posted By: spasm3
Originally Posted By: car51
Originally Posted By: HoosierJeeper
That mount is toast, no fixing that.
Take it in for alignment check somewhere, most places do that for free and they'll tell you if anything is bent.
+1000, great advice
I agree, but you will now need to do both sides. Especially if you have more that 60k on them. If you could collect from your state or local gov, i'd look into that.
Looks like the shock was not doing any dampning anyway, the spring compressed and the full force of the pothole went into that mount bending it or ramming the strut rod through the mount. The metal cap is sitting above the rubber of the mount !
Can you do this your self? How much repair have you done, do you have the tools to do this?
I had guessed that if it wasn't repairable, I would have to at least do both sides. They're 13 years old, and currently at 150k miles, so far as I know. I couldn't locate any records they've been replaced.
I could easily watch a vide on youtube, and monkey my way through. Short of rebuilding an engine or transmission, I've certainly got the basics to take something off and re-attach it.
But I lack a garage, and it's in my lease not to work on my car in our lot. The maintenance guys look the other way for most minor things (oil, belts, brakes, batteries, alternators and such that's quick) because I do my best to do my own apartment maintenance if they supply the parts. Recently, I've gotten a rather new neighbor who's openly pretty hostile to me, I'm guessing from the rainbow on my car. If he reported me, the management company would terminate my lease.
Additionally, I lack sockets large enough, and don't have a torque wrench or breaker bar. Nothing of great I do have an old friend that owns a transmission shop, and I'll run it by him to see if I supply parts (AcDelco are far cheaper online than from the dealer), he'll just bill me labor. He occasionally offered me bay space in his shop, but that was 10 years ago before he had more work then mechanics.
I will definitely retain the bills and take them down to City Hall with photos and hope they don't laugh me back into the parking lot.