local shop, now that's the problem with your strut mounts. Every older VW, Fox, Jetta, Golf, Passat has play in the caps right off the truck when new. Normal ply is about 1/2inch up & down. Around here, the big car stores us that line on every VW that comes in their shop. We see the ones, especially thoose under warrty want them replaced. "undetectable"= they like spending your money and replace parts which arn't faulty.
I have a '90 VW Fox, and a local shop is telling me I need both my
> strut mounts replaced before they can align my wheels. So I decided
> to replace the mounts myself, but when I took the old mounts off they
> looked about the same as the new. The shop told me this morning that
> a strut mount could be bad for any number of "undetectable" reasons,
> but especially noticeable is any amount ot "play" in the mount.
> While I was working on the mounts I noticed that the little rotating
> washer within the mount moved a little horizontally as well as
> rotating. Does this constitute detrimental "play" in the mount, or
> is a little motion (other than rotational) normal?
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