When I did my spring seats a long time ago one side had the same problem as your mentioning. All I did to remedy it was torque down the top bolt on the strut to fix it(the one you can access under the hood) You need two wrenches to do it I'm sure your aware, one to hold the strut shaft and another ...

I replaced the old ones with ipd HD seats

They make a clunking sound when they do it, and I'm pretty sure their moving up and down too much. Thats why I was thinking that their not tight enough, because everything checks out . They are ipd springs on stock struts which I guess could be part of the problem?

Did you replace the spring seats when you did the struts? Honestly, I wouldn't let PepBoys touch my kid's bicycle, let alone my car. Yes the spring seats were replaced. Im really trying to figure out why the strut is moving up and down inside the mount. And yeah I'm getting the general consensus th...

any thoughts?

very interested in seeing the outcome of the solenoid trick, as i have a similar problem

Noo, my struts are moving up and down inside the strut mount and making a clunking noise. However I pulled them both out and inspected everything, and didn't find anything wrong. Im assuming their not tight enough because of the vertical play, even thought i tightened the crap out of them when I res...

Hi, my 850s struts were not installed properly (top nuts not tight enough), since I am away at school, the only time I can get it to a shop is on a weekend, which narrows it down to basically chain stores. My question is, should I trust pep boys to re-do my strut assemblies? or should I wait and hav...

Up for sale I have:
- MAF meter for a volvo s70
- exhaust camshaft position sensor for a volvo 850
- volvo 850 bell housing transmission rpm sensor

$25 each

are they still available? and do yo have the harness for them?