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10-28-2010, 06:10 PM | #1 |
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Rear Strut Mounts
Anyone taken apart the rear interior of an M COUPE to change the strut mounts? I guess it would be sacreligious to cut an access window in the carpet rather than spend 3 hours taking it all apart wouldn't it
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10-29-2010, 03:05 PM | #2 |
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Psssht. Cut the window, man! There's nothing holy about an M-Coupe's carpeting. Yanking the trunk's interior is a royal pain mostly because it is nearly impossible to get it all back together exactly how it was. So many clips. So many tabs.
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I installed the RE mounts.
It wasn't really that big of a deal. I only took off some of the rear trim, then just pulled the rest back far enough to slide my hand in. I don't think it took more than an hour.
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10-29-2010, 04:44 PM | #4 |
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Others have cut access windows so they could adjust their rear struts setting when they went aftermarket.
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10-29-2010, 10:04 PM | #5 |
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Access holes are the way to go! I didn't even think twice about punching holes in my carpeting:
I found some plastic plugs from Lowe's / Home Depot that fit the hole I drilled through. You can't tell from the pics (due to the flash), but it looks like OEM. This is a pic of the passenger side looking down the hole: |
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10-30-2010, 05:04 AM | #6 |
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Whats the very very old line about great minds etc! Thanks gents - will find the caps and get out my exacto knife !
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10-30-2010, 08:47 AM | #7 |
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^ I thought you were asking about strut mounts, not shock adjustment?
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10-30-2010, 10:02 AM | #8 |
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Well I was asking about the "shock mounts" and although I will need a bigger access, I may just slit the carpet and tape it back together from underneath with carpet tape.
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