Struts fail after 6 months? Options

[phokur]

So I installed my Teins and GR-2s in January See Here
Anyway, the bumping I hear has gotten much worst. I was trying to ignore it, but it got to the point I was afraid something was going to come through the floor. Had a garage look at it and they said my struts were bad... I just installed these things! Anybody have this happen? I got the GR-2s that everybody else here runs, but the garage said if I ran stock struts and lowering springs the strut could bottom out and fail.

[Galcobar]

Well, your top photo isn't working, and the one I can see doesn't show the bottom spring seat, the gland nut, or the strut rod nut -- if any of those are set wrong wrong, you can easily account for unnecessary stress on your shocks. Nor can I see if you've got a good set of bumpstops in place.

However, it looks like you didn't replace your strut mounts if the rust is any indication, and your upper spring seat isolator is mis-aligned to the spring seat. I cannot determine if your spring seat and spring were correctly aligned on install since I'm looking at removed pieces.

I purchased my KYB GR-2 from jdmwerks13 as well, not had a problem with them on my Eibach Pro-kit.