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Originally Posted by AtomicLabMonkey
First of all I've just been joking around, about that whole modifying-cars-slippery-slope-bankrupt thing. Second of all, what exactly is going to happen that will pitch you off the road and total the car? Are the struts & mounts so poorly designed that the strut is going to depart the vehicle or something when they wear out?
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Well, I do have a nice clunk developing on the left front. I'm assuming it's the strut since it sounds like it's transmitting right from the strut-top, and I can't find anything loose in the suspension/steering.
As far as a wreck, I'm just imagining the damper totally giving out while driving around on washboarded ice, putting the bottom of the car into the ground and surf-boarding off the road on the exhaust. As it is, the car is so low that last winter I was bottoming the car out on the snow/ice, even at low speeds... I imagine it'll only be worse this winter as the suspension gets worse.
That's why I'm looking for a height-adjustable setup, so I can get an inch or so more height out of the car for the winter. I'm already running over-sized snow tires, and it's still too low... so the only step left is to actually lift the suspension a little.