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Originally Posted by mbtoloczko
I've got 25k miles on new rear struts I put in over two years ago, and they are working fine. Replaced the front struts about 1.5 years ago (15k miles), and those are working fine too. So not all of them are bad. Would seem to be a crap shoot though. I would have been very unhappy if I had to disassemble my suspension after 5k miles to replace a blown strut.
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The interesting note here is that the car wasn't behaving as if it had blown struts (no bounce when you push down hard on the car and let go). I think the improved springs, urethane bushings, etc. were masking the fact that the struts were bad.
Excellent point on the Showa struts sitting around in storage - I failed to mention that the rear struts were the second set I had put on - the first set failed (can you say "puddles of fluid beneath each strut"?) after less than 1k miles - had them replaced under warrenty. This really plays to just going ahead and going with the Koni inserts and not even bothering with the Showa struts....
-Bill
p.s. GC springs will only happen if I use the strut housings I have now for a Koni/coil-over set up 
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