Garron wrote:

Evening all.

I have the orange light and bong, coupled with a bit of front n/s sag overnight over the last week. Have investigated today and can hear and feel air escaping from in between the strut and outer body housing, whilst the front n/s lowers gradually from off road height with the ignition off.

I deduce that the airbag is split inside somewhere and the strut has had its chips and will need replacing - so, is it difficult to do yourself? Do you need any special tools? Does everything re-calibrate itself once the new one is on or is it just best left to my indy?

Additional million-dollar question - do I replace both fronts at the same time or is it ok to just replace the faulty one?

Thoughts, costings and experiences welcome! MTIA

gstuart wrote:

Hiya

Also wished to add if I may that when I replaced both my front struts I didn’t need to go anywhere near the steering etc

Know when I replaced mine it was like night and day in improvement

Plus noticed , is that a squashed pipe , or hole, have circled it

Hope u get it sorted out and indeed what’s always been mentioned , great satisfaction doing ur own spannering

Indeed should settle down, wonder if they may have undone the bottom wishbone bolt as that would kick ur alignment out , but of course that’s very unlikely they would make that mistake

But of course if in time it doesn’t improve and ur steering checks out fine would be the best course of action to get ur alignment checked

What you've circled is a drip hanging on the pipe - can't smell any fuel and nothings leaking at the moment.... steering is getting lighter as the GT85 works its way in, although I'll change the lower link at some point.

Haynes manual on the way