ok i think i may have had a little bit too much fun drifting this past weekend and messed up something. i did a really hard left turn drift and had a wee bit too much oversteer and did a complete 360 but managed to keep driving afterwards. its quite cool really if i was trying to do it on purpose probably couldnt get it. anyways, on to the question. when im driving along now my front right tire seems to be bouncy. im mean extremly bouncy. to the point were when im doing 70 on the highway my steering wheel starts to shake really hard. my aligment seems ok but not 100%. tire pressure normal and all have about the same thread depth. is this the sign of a messed up suspension?

 

Sounds like a broken strut. Thats what my GTu had wrong with it. But then I got a great deal from Rxmfn7 Now I'm riding in style.

 

You can usually hear them also. Like when they compress, you car hear it...loud bump sound.

 

if its just blown out you will also see fluid coming out of the seal between the shaft and the body

easyest test go push down on that corner of the car it should just come back up and stop if it keep bouncing up and down its blown

i have ebach springs and KYB/AGX struts and its hard to even push my car down and if i manage it when it comes back up it stops moving immediatly

 

rotate your tires front to rear if you can, that will tell you if it is a tire out of round or a bent wheel. if it goes away when you rotate them then take the tires you put in the back to a tire shop to have them checked for a problem.

 

You could have chucked a wheelweight too.

 

thanks guys, i have a flat spot on my tire. did the shock test as well didnt bounce. didnt see any liquid so i guess im saved for the mean time.

 

^haha...took me a while to respond...lol

yeah...the front struts are a major part of the suspension. A problem with it will show it's self in the the steering and over all handling of the car. You could also walk outside, and put all your weight on the car over the suspected strut and see if it will bounce. IT shouldn't, and if you can actually dribble your car, it's really fucked.

Funny story...my supra has shocks all around, so the actual driving isn't effected when they're gone...you just get a lot of bounce over bumps and stuff. My rear struts were so bad that you could walk behind the car and start dribbling it and actually get enough spring in the suspesion to lift the rear wheels up off the ground.

 

they are a major component of your suspension but unless you hit something and hard they usually won't go away overnight like that.