Finding Strut Mount Car Problems

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is Nate McCullough on behalf of expertvillage.com. In this clip we are going to talk about some of the possible problems you can have with a strut mount. This one that I have here in my hands is your typical rear suspension strut mount. There is not much that can go wrong with these it is a few mis steal casting with some rubber molding between it. Rubber molding allows it to be slightly flexible. As you drive the vehicle over bumps there are some forces that the suspension takes that are not compensated for design and function of the suspension angles. This flexibility build into the strut mount would compensate for that. Now over time the rubber molding on the inside just from flexing over and over again will tare apart. It could also rust the part if you live in a salt belt part of the country up here in Michigan where I'm from it is not uncommon to see these bolts rusted right off or the inside of the strut might completely rust in half. As for the rear now in the front you could have the same type of failures that you can in the rear. However, being that there is a baring build to the front strut right about here which allows the wheels to turn those barons could degrade over time some corrosion, some lack of proper lubrication would cause these barons to turn into squares and not marbles any more. That would give you a condition called memory stir. You turn the vehicle and the power steering would overcome the resistant in those back barons. However, when you let go of the steering wheel it is not going to want to turn back the center the way that in naturally does. You would actually have to drive it back to the center that is another problem that you could have which is isolated only to the front upper strut mounts or the baron place as they are called."