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Old Aug 11, 2014 | 09:41 AM
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Ok so I just recently replaced my front struts as well as my lower and upper controll arms and my sway bar links. It seems like the car is loose in the front end now. Every time I go over a bump it's a weird vibration. I do not believe my tie rods are bad. What could be the cause of this. I didint get an alignment yet but would that cause looseness over bumps
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Old Aug 11, 2014 | 10:10 AM
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yeah, being way out of alignment can cause car to drive weird.
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Old Aug 11, 2014 | 01:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Maciek Michalak
Ok so I just recently replaced my front struts as well as my lower and upper controll arms and my sway bar links. It seems like the car is loose in the front end now. Every time I go over a bump it's a weird vibration. I do not believe my tie rods are bad. What could be the cause of this. I didint get an alignment yet but would that cause looseness over bumps
did you torque all fasteners to spec? the torque setting on some of them is pretty high, particularly the tension struts.
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