Rear Shocks

[Night Hawk]

I replaced the rear today. Pretty straight forward. The old ones were shot for sure. The passenger side had a hole in the shock body and lost all of the fluid.

  I ended up going with the PP spec front and rears despite having a non PP car, funny too I had a front d/s original strut blown right out when replaced.

Where did you purchase them from?

I originally went with Rockauto then, when I had the car up on the lift and went to replace the old units, I found they had sent me two of the same side front struts.  Given the box was marked from Ford with the correct number but the hardware wasn't accurate.  I ended up getting roped around for nearly ten days, so I ordered the strut from a local dealership.  As far as the difference, I changed to Eibach springs at the same time so there was a subtle improvement with handling sharpness.

[IHeartGroceries]

I see these crap out pretty quickly.

What's the mileage these tend to fail?

Seems like they're overloaded from the factory. We all know the uselessness of a blown shock. But, they degradate as well in the thousands of miles prior to failure, with a coincidental drop in damping performance.

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[elund126]

I'd say probably right at 50k is when mine went

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