Doods,

After a failed APA/URO strut mounts in ten years and 40k easy miles and now the Meyle crappy junky about to fail after ten months and a few scant thousand miles, I took my own advice and snuck some real Volvo OEM from Tasca strut mounts just now

All is well.

Would any, ANYONE, with experience, please tell of us you successes or woes with what brand of strut mount you use or have used?

BOGE manufactures the Volvo OEM strut mount for Volvo that we can buy from Tasca and elsewhere (why would you buy Volvo OEM from anywheres else?).

Has anyone used Made in Germany/Europa BOGE strut mounts.

Some have stated SKF strut mounts are another choice.

The Volvo OEM made by Boge in Germany strut mounts use a roller ball bearing assembly. These Volvo OEM strut mounts no longer use the SKF roller ball bearings like before. Same ball bearing in a race design. You can slather some NLGI 2 grease under the dust cap to keep those bearings lubed.

All cheap, crappy strut mounts use those sealed bearings. They don't take lateral stresses well. The nine-month old few scant thousand mile strut failing Meyle strut mounts have these sealed bearings, and they are all crunchy and funky.

The URO/APA strut mounts also had sealed bearing races.

Anyhoo, please let us know.

cheers,

dud.
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Dude, you said strut mount. Gnarly, dude.

If you love it, lube it.