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If car is at the point of engine rebuild you'd probably have to replace half of the suspension too


At least! When my engine finally needed a rebuild, so did the transmission, steering box, CV joints, and center differential. And you're right, it needed new bushings, shocks, springs, and balljoints.


Yeah, I recently bought a car (I had driving license for 15 years before that but for 14 of them I didn't drive coz I moved to the big city), and basically bought one of cheapest, had to replace dampers last year, this year one of springs broke, one of calipers have some problems and apparently one of previous owners installed lambda probe emulator to hide dead catalytic converter...

Tho a bunch of that might be because I bought "sporty car" and those rarely have easy life in the first place...


"need" starts being a very subjective word when talking about some of these components at high milage.


"While I'm at it might as well"

And honestly on something that used it might be the best, taking it apart again just to replace the thing you thought you might not need to is PITA


How high do used car prices have to rise before a full rebuild starts to look cost effective?




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