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Very sharp and unique !!

 

My other half is an AP at the high school near my house. I made friends with the auto shop teacher and he let me use a lift for a couple of hours to tinker around my car to find the rattles/clunks I've been hearing. Found nothing in the front aside from my recently replaced tie rod ends clunking when I'd wiggle them up and down. The rears, however, are a different story. The top of the struts where they mount into that upper spring retainer thingy, there are these foam/rubber/plastic bushings. I stuck a bar under each tire and lifted them up and down and there's about maybe an inch of travel. Could the distance between the bottom of the threads on the strut post and the seat below them be longer than OE spec? Thinking I'll need to replace the whole upper assembly to get rid of that travel. Are they supposed to move "freely" up and down about an inch like they are? The circled part in the picture below is where the movement is.

 

Very nicely done.

 

Nicely done

 

Where did you get the Millennial Anti-theft device decal? I want one.

 

What did I do with my mini today?
Just got it back from the shop after having to spend $7,400 to have a used engine installed after the freeze plugs blew allowing coolant into the engine. Mini's reply: It's not under warranty!!! First and last mini I'll ever own.

 

That’s sucks.

 

you mean you have motor for winter driving and then a motor of summer driving?

 

I'm lucky I happened to be working on something else and noticed my wheel was soaked. Crashton was right, I dodged a serious bullet. She coulda blown up on the highway! A replacement engine woulda meant replacement car (or truck) for this cat.

 

That is the trouble with all cars now. The plastic carp doesn't last & crumbles once touched. Planned obsolescence.

 

This is also the same problem with Congress.