Laguna MK1 font strut spring compression

[Tyranosaurus Alan]

Well my laguna is giving me problems with compressing the spring on the front strut. My spring compressor rod seem to fowl the bottom plate.

Does the laguna have a special tool to compress the spring or does a brand produce longer grip so that it won't foul the bottom plate of the strut casing.

Thank for the advice/help

[ourcar]

Is the assembly off the car or still in situ?
I have not seen a Lag strut so may be mistaken here, but if it's off why don't you compress the spring using the tool the other way around? Or maybe the top plate is in the way too?

[Tyranosaurus Alan]

Well the strut was off when I tried and the main rod of the spring compressor seem to foul either the bottom plate and the top plate.

This is alot of palava from a small plastic ring at the bottom of the spring plate instead of the whole top mount.

[ourcar]

It's always the simple stuff that is stupidly difficult to do ! What is it you're trying to fix?

[Tyranosaurus Alan]

Replace the 'bearing' at the bottom of the coil spring to take out the play at the top of the strut mount.

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