my new struts are rattling!

You don't say if there was a rattle before you took your car to Midas, but if there wasn't obviously you have to take it back to them. Shocks can sometimes be faulty.

Yes, no rattle before the replacement. I did the replacement because one of the springs broke, which caused creaks and clunks related to a single event and was quite obvious, so I figured it was time for the struts too. Thanks for the thought that the struts themselves might be faulty. I did do a search on this topic in this group, and saw that there were posts some years ago about front end rattles. The cause seems to be many and varied - defective struts not mentioned then, however.

(..and let me apologize ahead of time for using Google Groups without proper quoting because I can't access my Comcast newsgroup service with a proper newsreader from work...)

I think I'd be more worried about what might have been left untightened...

Get it checked ASAP!

Chris

Yes, this would be my concern. I'm thinking something didn't get tightened. (I once replaced some shocks on my van and had a terrible rattle right after. Turned out my tightened bolts were tight enough!)

Matt

Got it looked at today. It was a broken swaybar that was just banging against other stuff! That explains why it didn't rattle when i first started driving around - sometimes it would bang on stuff and sometimes it just hung.

The swaybar attaches high > >