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First Impressions and Questions of a New to Me V70 V70-XC70 2001

posted by  jadnhm on  Wed Oct 27 15:53 CST 2010
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I have the Monroe Sensatracs in my 1998 V70 AWD and I think they're perfectly adequate for a daily driver. Also, I got them 25% off (actually buy one get the second 50% off - same thing) AND they come with a lifetime warranty. Plus I got them locally (Canadian Tire) so no shipping costs. Pretty tough to beat that.

Unless you have 300k miles on them I highly doubt your strut bearings are bad, but highly suspect your spring bushings are bad. Get the OEM XC90 spring bushings or IPD's HD ones. Save the cash on the strut bearings and buy yourself some new rubber - bump stops and the top washer.

Of course if you can afford the extra dough, new strut bearings are preferred, but they do last a long time. Mine had 200k on them and were in perfectly fine shape, despite the previous 10k with bad shocks and spring bushings... I replaced mine anyway because I ordered new ones from FCP but I wouldn't have felt the least bit bad about putting the old ones back on the car.


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1998 V70 AWD->FWD Turbo 200k+






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