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Strut boots are not only uneccessary but are actually disadvantageous. They tend to trap moisture on the strut shaft and prevent its evaporation, leading to reduced life of the struts.

However, if your strut bump stop was integrated into your old strut boot, you're going to have to cut the bump stop off and install that (you will have to disassemble the strut). Do NOT use struts without a bump stop.

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Strut boots are not only uneccessary but are actually disadvantageous.

 

well if keeping damaging dirt and debris off of the strut shaft is uneccessary and disadvantageous, than no, you don't need them.

 

if you wanted, try to find those neoprene covers that people use on the shocks for quads or whatever, maybe those will work.

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Strut boots are not only uneccessary but are actually disadvantageous.

 

well if keeping damaging dirt and debris off of the strut shaft is uneccessary and disadvantageous, than no, you don't need them.

 

I don't have strut boots on my rears and they're still shiny after about 10k miles.

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Umm the boots are put there for one reason, to protect the struts. Use them if you can. If you forgot to put them on, I'm not sure it's worth the time and effort to dissasemble the entire thing again just to put them on. I guess it depends on how inexepensive or expensive the struts you put on are.

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If you just put the struts in, everything should still be pretty loose... I would take off one bolt on the bottom, and both bolts holding the upper mount to the car... dissasemble that part of the strut, and install the boot from there....That way you don't have to take the whole thing out of the car.

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If you just put the struts in, everything should still be pretty loose... I would take off one bolt on the bottom, and both bolts holding the upper mount to the car... dissasemble that part of the strut, and install the boot from there....That way you don't have to take the whole thing out of the car.

 

Wait, how is that going to work unless you have the strut compressed?

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LOL The same thing happen to a friend of mine about 1 yr ago. He lives in the country and beats the crap out of his z34 . So far no problems at all for him.

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