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Re: [Spridgets] NOT spridget related - 94 Toyota Corolla strut

To: rick bastedo <rbastedo@gmail.com>, spridget list <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] NOT spridget related - 94 Toyota Corolla strut
From: Bill Masquelier <billmasq@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 16:17:19 -0800
Rick
I have a spring compressor if you need it.
BillM

> Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 10:19:36 -0800
> From: rbastedo@gmail.com
> To: spridgets@autox.team.net
> Subject: [Spridgets] NOT spridget related - 94 Toyota Corolla strut problem
>
> My oldest daughter is an artist who is out on her own and loves her
> independence.
> She is going to college and working a low paying retail job trying to save
> money and also has MS.
> I'm totally impressed by all that she is accomplishing, and the thing is
she
> wants to do it herself.
> However she also knows when to call her dad and ask for help.
> Last week we had some bad weather here and she was on her way home from
work
> around 10PM on a small little country road when a "big SUV" came
"barreling"
> down on her with bright lights on "in her lane".
> The short of it was she took evasive action into the ditch and got her car
> out herself but had a flat tire so she called me.
> I found the tire not looking good, she had a spare and a jack which I found
> and proceeded to change the tire for her.
> When I jacked up the car it seemed the strut just dangled, no longer
> attached at the top.
> I put the spare on and then let it back down. I gave it a little test drive
> and everything felt OK but I told her to get it to the tire place in the
> morning and have them look it over.
> I talked to the tire place, the guy said the tire was destroyed and she had
> to buy a new one.
> He said the strut wasn't right but didn't know what it would take to fix
it.
> I take that as - "this is going to cost you big time".
> I told him I'd take care of it.
> Please understand that I have zero experience with struts. I haven't a clue
> what to do about this or even much of what I was looking at.
> Does this happen because the top part breaks loose or does the whole strut
> need to be replaced?
> Any sort of help in that direction would be great.
> She doesn't want to pay a lot to get this fixed, but wants to do it herself
> (pay for it that is - she's happy if I do the work).
> I usually have her at least stick around while I work on her car just in
> case she might possibly learn something, but she isn't really into
wrenching
> anything herself.
> I thought for a while before sending this out to the list, I'm sure there's
> a lot of you our there who have 'been there done that' with this kind of
> thing.
> Thanks.
>
> Rick Bastedo
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