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Originally Posted by manofsteele2003
Just normal street/mall crawling, nothing out of the ordinary. And yes both of the rear shocks were toast not just leaking. I noticed the rear end started to clunk going over bumps so I took off one of the shocks to inspect. It compressed with almost no effort and did not return at all. The front spring just broke out of nowhere, no off roading incident, pot holes, etc. There was a little rust forming on it but nothing out of the ordinary for a 5ish year old set up. Bilstein did replace both of them under warranty but the process was not easy or quick.
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5 years use of the shocks with 4k miles per year
parts will fail and shocks are typically ones to do so. The OEM shocks well those seem to be a different story. The 5160s I had were from the TRD clearance sale from the FJ, manufacturer date was probably 2007-12 maybe. I ended up with 5-6 years of on road use with around 70k miles.
