King Nothing

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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.

jlangley

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King Nothing

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And I owe you a beer!

farmington

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and they're not macpherson struts. they're plain old shock absorbers

King Nothing

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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.

JD_AMG

Ive never heard that term and googled it, google came up with this:

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?

King Nothing

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So why are they called Strut Tower Braces? Some companies call them shock tower braces, but the majority of companies call them Strut Tower Braces.

blackbyrd

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not sure but when you think about it mounts to neither it goes onto the studs for the shock mount. its more like a inner fender brace than anything haha

JD_AMG

Simply incorrect wordage. 4th gens have coilover shocks, not struts. Struts do not have upper control arms, coilovers do.

King Nothing

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So really it is a shock mount brace lol

Spartan7

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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.