Part number for this?
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Part number for this? This is at the top of the Macpherson strut assembly and I can't find a part number for it 
mine are worn the **** out and I need to replace them.
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I work with a guy who had an alignment business and has been doing alignments longer than I've been alive (34 years) I asked him what they are called and he said correct they are not macperson struts but they aren't normal shock absorbers, when they first came and it with the design they were called SuperStruts.
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I work with a guy who had an alignment business and has been doing alignments longer than I've been alive (34 years) I asked him what they are called and he said correct they are not macperson struts but they aren't normal shock absorbers, when they first came and it with the design they were called SuperStruts.
So they are not superstruts either, they are coilover shocks like we have always said on here. There is an upper A-arm, struts do not use an upper A-arm at all, that is what a coilover shock design uses.
Strut vs shock, which one looks like ours?
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Simply incorrect wordage. 4th gens have coilover shocks, not struts. Struts do not have upper control arms, coilovers do.
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Misnomers, most likely stemming from 3rd gens. Those DO have struts. 4th gens have a short/long arm front suspension with coilover shocks.