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2009 Nissan Murano rear shocks keep blowing out
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beaninno
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Sep 16, 2012, 12:59 PM
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2009 Nissan Murano rear shocks keep blowing out
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Went in to get my tires rotated at tire shop and they said my rear shocks were leaking and blown. Since it was there and dealt with them for years told to go ahead and change out with Genuine Nissan Parts. Picked the car up and 30 minutes later car was bouncing up and down like crazy after whenever I hit a bump. I went back next morning and show it to them and they said shocks were blown again. They suggested trying after market shocks and switch out the next day. They test drove it and said after 10 minutes the shocks were blown out again. They check everything and said didn't understand it. They refunded me my money and said bring it to a Nissan Dealership.
The Nissan Dealership said they checked it and can't see any reason why this is happening as everything looks fine with installation, mounts, front shocks, etc.
Anybody run into this before? Any suggestions or ideas?
Tim M
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Hammer Time
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Sep 16, 2012, 2:03 PM
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The only way i know to cause that is with severe impact. If the car didn't run over anything hard, i see no reason for it. Just defective units.
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beaninno
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Sep 16, 2012, 2:30 PM
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No severe impacts and it happened three times. I have 120,000 miles on my car so I can see the first
set needing to be replaced but the two sets that replaced it blew out in 30 minutes and 10 minutes
after driving on them.
Could it be a bad spring or mount or tires?
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Hammer Time
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Sep 16, 2012, 2:35 PM
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No, if there isn't anything pushing on it from the side, there there really isn't anything that can do that besides defective/incorrect parts. There is more chance that the installer caused it by spinning the shock with air tools.
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beaninno
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Sep 16, 2012, 2:41 PM
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Thanks for help!
Its at Nissan Dealership now. Hopefully that can figure it out.
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Sep 16, 2012, 5:33 PM
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Did they put the coil springs on with the rear shocks? If the rear springs are missing or are weak, that will cause premature shock failure.
Since we volunteer our time and knowledge, we ask for you to please follow up when a problem is resolved.
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Sep 16, 2012, 5:46 PM
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What spring?
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beaninno
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Sep 17, 2012, 6:24 AM
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Do you by chance have a diagram of the entire rear suspension of a 2009 Murano?
Thanks!
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Sep 17, 2012, 7:02 AM
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I believe you are correct HT. There is no spring on the shock itself. Judging from this pic, you would think otherwise.
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beaninno
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Sep 17, 2012, 8:15 AM
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Nissan just finished inspection and said rear coil
Springs are bad and need to be replaced. They said
That was blowing the shocks and causing them to leak.
I guess the spring is the #4 in diagram. I will let you know
How it turns out.
Thanks again for all your help!
(This post was edited by beaninno on Sep 17, 2012, 8:17 AM)
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Haven't been there on one of these but I don't buy that both springs are both bad and near instantly blow both new shock and have a couple times.
It appears the springs are not designed as part of the assembly. With the multiple failures unless somehow these springs are physically rubbing hard against shocks I would guess air tools used probably unscrewed that top shaft of shock so first even moderate bumps might just pull out, jam up, leak.
Most designs are using the shock as the main stop for spring to not extend indefinately and strongly note that I have not done these nor studied the exact way a fairly basic concept is done but that would explain it if so,
T
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