lvl3catastrophe
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- 2003 Mazda Protege 5
I wanted to know if anyone has had or has a remedy to this problem.
I have Megan's street series coilovers MR-CDK-MP501. There has been an issue with the top mount bolt loosening about every six months since I installed them 2 years ago. When the issue comes back there is a clicking noise when I turn and clunking noise when I hit bumps and in the past tightening the top mount bolts fix this. Now this no longer is fixing the issue and Megan is telling me I need to replace the pillow ball mount bushing (I am also going to have to replace the strut because the 5 MM allen key on top is now stripped after around 5 rounds of this).
I am debating changing the whole system or if someone has a fix for this just replacing the parts and staying with Megan. Overall I would rather stay with the set I have but if this is a known problem with no fix I will go with another company to fix it.
They told me locktite would work, but it didn't. They have told me different torques also. At first I was told 60 ft/lbs now it is 45 ft/lbs. They also told me that all coilover systems on MacPherson struts have this issue but I called Tein and ksport and they both said they have never heard of this issue. Any advice would be great I appreciate it.
I have Megan's street series coilovers MR-CDK-MP501. There has been an issue with the top mount bolt loosening about every six months since I installed them 2 years ago. When the issue comes back there is a clicking noise when I turn and clunking noise when I hit bumps and in the past tightening the top mount bolts fix this. Now this no longer is fixing the issue and Megan is telling me I need to replace the pillow ball mount bushing (I am also going to have to replace the strut because the 5 MM allen key on top is now stripped after around 5 rounds of this).
I am debating changing the whole system or if someone has a fix for this just replacing the parts and staying with Megan. Overall I would rather stay with the set I have but if this is a known problem with no fix I will go with another company to fix it.
They told me locktite would work, but it didn't. They have told me different torques also. At first I was told 60 ft/lbs now it is 45 ft/lbs. They also told me that all coilover systems on MacPherson struts have this issue but I called Tein and ksport and they both said they have never heard of this issue. Any advice would be great I appreciate it.
