Question about struts (Page 1/1) FieroJam JAN 07, 12:58 PM So this maybe a stupid question but I need to ask it. I was looking at some quick strut replacement parts. This is the strut with the spring and everything already preloaded so you just replace the whole thing as one part instead of compressing the spring and disassembling the whole thing to replace just the strut. The question is do these quick struts come as a left side / right side? weaselbeak JAN 07, 05:11 PM I don't see a difference right to left. Maybe on some cars. carnut122 JAN 07, 08:52 PM Are you talking about Fiero struts? Either way, unless they have two different part #'s I'd say they're the same. Fiero84Freak JAN 08, 11:42 PM For most vehicles, the strut assemblies are the same left or right. They typically designed this way primarily due to reduction of potential parts and ease of replacement, but also because on most vehicles the strut (and/or shock) assemblies have very few mounting points. There's only the top - or 'hat' - mounts, which is usually three studs mirrored left to right. Then there is the lower attaching point to the knuckle, which is usually two to facilitate an axis for alignment. I personally do not know of an instance on a vehicle I have encountered where such assemblies would be different from right to left or vise versa. The only instances I could potentially see is if you had some sort of mechanism to control the strut assembly, like a sort of active handling setup on a higher end sports car. Or in some crazy instance where a particular suspension component may be mounted in some way that facilitates a suspension knuckle design that cannot mirror from one side to the other and interferes with the bottom strut mounting. I'm no authority on either of these though.