[s-cars] upper strut mounts

[Wylie Bean]

Mine are still in place and were the only thing keeping my driver's side strut from kissing the hood, as the rubber and metal were completely separated.  

Wylie Bean (via blackberry)
90 cq
91 90q20v
92 UrS4
08 Q7 3.6P

-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Pecsar <rpecsar at pacbell.net>

Date: Sat, 09 May 2009 09:27:16 
To: Tom Green<trgreen at comcast.net>
Cc: <s-car-list at audifans.com>
Subject: Re: [s-cars] upper strut mounts


I destroyed my upper strut mount as well, and found that I should have 
installed load washers(443-412-147) under the strut mount when I 
switched to the Bilstein/Eibach suspension setup. The washers are 
slightly conical and help distribute the load across the rubber of the 
strut mount under full suspenstion travel. No problem since and 
suspension clunking is gone when I hit an uphill transtion.

HTH,

Rob

Tom Green wrote:

>I want something more than hype from Meyle before I purchase their  
>products.  The promises of high quality in the strut mounts, lower  
>control arm bushings and "new technology" coolant reservoirs has  
>proven to be hype only in the past for products that have been  
>demonstrated to be inferior.
>
>If you are expecting satisfactory service from $12 JLGermany upper  
>strut mounts, I think you need to review this decision process.  I  
>don't have all the answers but most of
>the "bargain" stuff hitting the market is no bargain.
>
>Tom
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>>The ringmeister wrote:
>>I guess I should also clarify that the upper mounts on my car now  
>>that are failing were not branded as Meyle anywhere, neither on the  
>>box nor the casting itself.  I believe they were sold under the "JL  
>>Germany" brand..... Otherwise known as "Creative China LTD" 8^).
>>
>>Supposedly the Meyle rep was very helpful in diagnosing the reason  
>>for the premature failure of their mount and they made a run of  
>>updated mounts with improved rubber/metal bonding and a handful of  
>>folks on the UrS forums on AW at the time were using them and  
>>observed marked improvement over previous product from Meyle.  I  
>>think this was about 6-8 months ago?
>>
>>Wylie Bean
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