A while back I bought a set of stock SE struts from a friend of mine that had only used them for less then 20k. He had them laying in his garage and wanted to get them out. So I bought them from him. These springs came off of a 99 SE Maxima and the struts only had 20k on them. My question is if I put lowering springs on these barely used struts will I have problems.....? (These are OEM Factory Struts)

 

any spring you buy, oem or aftermarket, are fine on stock struts. So the question should be, how are the conditions of the struts you'll be using?
Jae

 

well from what my friend tould me he takes a nice clean straight hwy back and forth to work when he had these. The only reason he replaced them was because he got AGX Adjustable struts. I had a local mechanic look at them and he said the struts look in pretty good condition. So what do u think.......I bought a pair of AGX adjustable but i was just wondering for awhile if I could try to see how these are.

 

With aftermarket springs they will definately wear out, most likely before 30k miles, possibly even closer to 5-10k miles depending on which spring.

 

according to tech departments of various spring companies that produce springs for Maximas, they all did r&d on stock struts. The reason was cuz it's the only baseline they had, easily accessable, and everybody has them on their stock car. No spring company would recommend a specific strut to me. GC said they produce diff springrates was cuz people complained the stock struts weren't keeping up with their agressive track springrates. They noted that off-the-shelf springs weren't ready for full-time track duty, so they didn't bother testing w/aftermarket struts.
I've noticed that if you leave a "dead" strut laying out for a day, it will suck the piston in. I'm not sure if this applies to all dead struts, but I've witnessed it in several different applications.
Jae

 

I did the same thing last week I bought some stock SE struts from an org member for $18.00 he took them off his Maxima at 18,000 miles I put them on my Max Speed springs and I blew the rears this weekend so thery lasted on 1 week DO NOT DO THIS...now I'm getting some KYB AGX's lesson learned.....

 

Yeah, Same thing with me. Had the Maxspeeds installed on my stock struts. 1 Week later, the Rears also blew and It left me having to buy all 4 AGX's. But You wont Regret getting agx's. They are Great struts and I havent had any problems scince. I try and tell ANYONE that gets aftermarket lowering springs, that you should always change your struts. I didnt listen when I did it and found out the hard way. trust me, its a lot easier to install it all at once, then to put it with your stock struts and blow them and have to change it all again. It can be a PITA.

My 2 cents

later guys, Nick

 

Are you serious?!? I just bought Eibach Pro Kit springs and I was goning to install them on my OEM shocks and struts next weekend. And my shocks and struts have 63K on them...

If I buy springs I HAVE TO buy coilovers???

 

you need to buy at the same time and installed at the same time SPRINGS AND NEW STRUTS TO PUT ON YOUR CAR! trust me...

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