A couple of questions. So, as was determined, I need the top strut mounts replaced. Bushings shot. Can these be replaced by simply compressing the spring, or does the strut need to come out?

Thanks,

Ultra

 

Disregard. Just watched tutorial I see it strut mount is attached at top of strut, then mounted to car....

 

what year / model? yes the strut needs to come out and you need a spring compressor to remove the top nut to get the mount off.



typically its the spring seat that fails (see the good and the ahem, bad in the pic. The mount aka is the metal piece next to the wrench set. This is from an 850 but most volvos are the same.

 

Hey MT, thanks for the info. It's an '03 XC70. Bushings on the top are nearly non-existent. Clunking pretty good. But struts are still doing their job well. I was going to put in the XC90 strut mount and spring seats, as I see that's an update that is available.

Thanks,

Ultra.

 

cool, if you decide to source your own parts, go with Genuine or OEM (ie Febi) for the spring seat or check out IPD as they sell a "heavy duty". Cheap after market spring seats will likely fail within the next 50K miles. The bushing (ie mount) itself is not prone to failure but your call on replacing or not. You may not be able to tell if they are good until you get the struts out and apart.