Thanks for your thoughts and advice. It sounds like you have lots of experience on the GM equivilent of this issue.
I will hear from the shop tomorrow AM. I will have to figure out what to invest in what is now less than a $4000 car. We drive our cars until they drop and then a few years past. So, I will find out what the shop manager's confidence level is on a new strut. I guess my mishap of hitting the deep pot hole on the left and my wife's clipping right turns across the curbs for the rear right is not helpful for these cars. Blubump! I cringe every time! It does not help though....
Since you feel the car fram is probably not twisted, it seems that a new strut may be worthwhile.
I was perusing the GM group a few weeks ago.... reading that there was factory advise against any tinkering with alignment (SUV's I think) since the factory machines were so "precise". I guess precision is in the eye of the owner. Then again, perhaps they were referencing the available field tech skills and not based on what the alignment gear does in the hands of a knowing tech. Skill is not free but many times well worth the price.
Ian, thanks again for your thoughts.
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