I blew through a rear strut mount today while driving in Flint, MI. Looks like I'll have to keep off the roads until I'm out of school again.
If you have bad roads you'll want to consider something other than TEINs they are a little stiff.
On a related note, anyone know where I can find a new rear strut mount for cheap?
Sears, Autozone, Pepboys, Napa, Murrys,
They all sell it... probably cost you 30$ per rear or so . . ..
weird my coilovers are stiffer then teins and have TERRIBLE roads never had a problem
might have just been installed wrong or something
LE61T PTE6262 Powered 
^^ It wasn't installed wrong.
It may have been a particularly weak strut mount though.
Ahh Yes Im waiting for that to happen to me, we need somebody to come up with a better aftermarket solution for these rear strut mounts. I screwed up one drilling it out (got to hot) another one I was torqueing the damnbolt to 18 lbs and it snapped off before I even got there! but I couldn't return it of course because I bored it out, so there was 90 bucks down the drain.
The spring rates on the TEIN Basic coilovers are only 336 front and 224 rear....so that isnt terribly stiff. I think I would agree with you on the bad strut mount. How many miles on your ride approx. ?
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'97 Z24
The car itself only has 23,000 miles. The TEIN setup only has 3,000 or so.
That strut mount pics looks very familiar!!!
Same thing happened to me a few weeks ago. Which strut mount were you using? Mine were Gabriels...so I'm staying away from them.
Ive done that before but that was with 50k miles on them
1989 Turbo Trans Am #82, 2007 Cobalt SS G85
GoLeafsGo wrote:That strut mount pics looks very familiar!!!
Same thing happened to me a few weeks ago. Which strut mount were you using? Mine were Gabriels...so I'm staying away from them.
Stock, came with the car, whatever that is.
if it came with the car its the cheapest of the cheap
1989 Turbo Trans Am #82, 2007 Cobalt SS G85
hey scott did you guys cut anything in or on the mount ??
i remember the coil overs that brandon installed , that ended up on adams cav did that , and i think brandon had cut them down to far
I didn't cut or modify the mount at all
yeah i had to drill the hole in the stock rear mount (mine have 45k miles on em) and mine are holding real well with my koni/gc setup and i know the spring rates on the gcs are quite a bit higher if i remember correctly....
that sucks though man
ouch that makes me cringe when my setup should be here this week lol.
