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We recently had new tires and "fancy" wheels put on my wife's 2003 Tiburon GT. We went up to 17" and it really looks good. We bought the car new in the summer of 2002 right off the showroom floor. It has just turned 23,000 miles! It is like new, especialy since we just had a lot of paint work done to repair the faded black (Florida sun!).
When we left the tire shop, my wife said the car rode like a brick. I told her it was probably because of the lower profile tires, and she would get used to it. Well, I used it a week ago for some errands and was amazed at the hard ride. It was actually dangerous!
I took it back to the tire shop and they test drove it. They agreeded about the bad ride, but showed me that all four corners were a solid as a rock, with zero give when pushed down on. They said all four struts had "locked up."
They said that Honda has warned them about the CRV's doing that, and the Hyundi mechanic said he has seen Alantras do it, but never Tiburons.
Everyone says this can happen on very high mileage cars, but we have only 23K!
The tire shop wanted nearly $1000 to change the struts and align. I replaced them all with Monroes for $281.00 (son-in-laws works at auto parts store!) and about $60.00 to align. The car rides better than it ever did before.
All I can find is that sometimes when a car is on a lift with the wheels hanging down, the stuts will lock up when set back down.
Moral of story.... if you have a car with struts, when raising it up, do so by the suspension to avoid extending the struts.
Hope this helps someone else avoid this cost.
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