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Hi I new in this forum and hope to learn from you all. I have a 03 jetta and is time to replace the Strut Assembly I was hoping one of you experts could give me a good recommendation I was planning to use MONROE 171525 or MOOG ST8602 but a friend of mine tells me that I should go ahead and get something better since I am already having it apart. I would appreciate your input. I drive 45 minutes to work up and down a mountain in a very curve country road and about one mile in gravel road
 
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I have Monroe quick struts. Along with many on these forums. For a good every day strut it works and it's cheaper with springs. Be prepared tho as mine drove very stiff for about a month. They have about 9000miles and no leaking.


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What do you want your shocks/struts to do?

I don't believe that the vendors on this site offer Monroes. Any time I run across something like this it gives me a pause for thought: vendors here are pretty sharp; I have a lot of confidence in using products that they offer.

NOTE: I'd look to replace shocks too. Shocks are pretty quick/easy.
 
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AnotherPerson said:
I have Monroe quick struts. Along with many on these forums. For a good every day strut it works and it's cheaper with springs. Be prepared tho as mine drove very stiff for about a month. They have about 9000miles and no leaking.


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I like to have the same as good or better handle and durability of the oem my car has 260k miles and still handling great the only reason I am replacing them is because when I try to replace the struts mount on the passenger side I striped the 7mm allen screw in the top the shock so I going to replace the fronts for now and will do the rear soon.
 
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Most would go with Bilstein TCs. I went with Koni STRTs: these are stiffer, which isn't too much of an issue for me because I drive on good roads.

At 260k miles I doubt that anything would still be holding up. My car's suspension was toast when I got it with 114k miles: came from Minnesota, which is why.
 
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It seams that the Monroe Quick-Strut may be the best choice for my application, apparently everyone that uses it are happy with the performance and improvement over oem. I appreciate your help.
 
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Whichever strut you decide on, I'll offer one piece of advice from my experience: get an alignment done after the new struts. To this day I can't figure out why, but when I did mine last year, it threw the alignment out...a lot.
 
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Whichever strut you decide on, I'll offer one piece of advice from my experience: get an alignment done after the new struts. To this day I can't figure out why, but when I did mine last year, it threw the alignment out...a lot.
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I decide to go with the high end Monroe 171525 its about 40% more than the economy Monroe and everyone that has one seams to think it is an improvement over the OEM. It was bellow $280 for the front pair with shipping I could not justify spending extra 70% on a performance one in my case because the high miles on the car. Its run great, I love it and never will sale it as longs it a good car. I also replace the lower control arm(original have a few cracks on the rubber) and tie rod ends so yes a alignment will be done. I like to thank all of you for help.
 
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pontala1@gmail.com said:
I decide to go with the high end Monroe 171525 its about 40% more than the economy Monroe and everyone that has one seams to think it is an improvement over the OEM. It was bellow $280 for the front pair with shipping I could not justify spending extra 70% on a performance one in my case because the high miles on the car. Its run great, I love it and never will sale it as longs it a good car. I also replace the lower control arm(original have a few cracks on the rubber) and tie rod ends so yes a alignment will be done. I like to thank all of you for help.
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We paid like $175 for all 4 corners with springs and mounts. All I had to buy was new bump stops for the rear


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