I understand what people are trying to say here - and believe me I told my mechanic exactly what has been said here from square one - i.e. replace the upper mounts with the ones already on my car. What I am trying to enunciate is that I was advised very strongly that these struts are far too used (which is exactly what I told JDM-KID at our meeting - moreover if you saw them, or anyone for that matter, you probably wouldn’t buy them, he pushed them on me, my mistake for buying them) and should not be installed on any car (he said he wouldn’t put them on his car - and I trust his word). With all that being said I relayed that information to JDM-KID well over a month ago - to which he ignored. Yesterday I offered him to return my money for the struts, to which he declined. But since there are so many strong views against this issue, he can keep my money and have his well used struts along with the springs. In my personal experience, struts are parts that don’t last forever, and I can’t afford to buy expensive ones. I really can’t be more clear here - if the SON240 community still feels indifferent about it, so be it.