daechul2da

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my front passenger side suspension used to squeek and now it changed to

kind of a thump like spring binding and poping .. i m gonna lift it up tomorrow and take a

look it but has anyone else had problems like this?

searched but there was no answers just same problems

friend thinks maybe blown strut.

Smike

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Sounds like a blown strut.

Look for fluid around the seal. It's pretty easy to take off the strut. I'll typically take it off and disassemble to test the piston. If the piston is slow to react, does not move (sticks), has scoring on the shaft, or rattles - time for new/rebuild (if Bilstein).

Chef-j

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Is that happen when you go over the bump? or everytime you drive?

If you have a bad strut you will see fluid seeping out, you can't miss that. Push down hard on passenger side see if bounce back very quickly. I'm guessing it could be also strut mount.

evozoom

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You can have a "bad" stut that causes this noise w/o seeing fluid-I did on my drivers side after about 90K miles of tough cleveland driving. While the car handled ok -the noise became really bad and I could start to "feel" it and not just hear it- I tried all sorts of things like new strut bearings but it turned out to be a strut that just didn't have it anymore. Best thing I ever did was to just chage them all out.

barneyb

I lost the passenger side front strut but it didn't leak - something failed inside. The strut was very stiff in winter and made noise in the summer.

Blew the driver's side on my DSM by backing into a post with the tire while turning. It didn't leak ether. When I grasped and pulled where the rod came out it made a knocking sound with obvious sideways movement.

So, leaking is only one way they fail or get broken.

kanovic

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Check popping type of noise especially when going over bump chances are its a blown strut.

awdturbo8

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I had the same issue. I had to replace my blown strut. It's easy to swap out.