I can see them because I have Adobe photo but not sure anyone that didn't could see them.
Is a little hard to tell much because we can't see the "whole picture" I don' ow much about this but I have replaced mine and didn't run into a problem. However, neither did you! except for that one
It looks to me like with the car jacked up the spring pushes the strut down as far as it could?
Could something be wrong with the strut itself?
I will look at the picks again. Don't know a lot about this.
Like I said, I just replaced mine and all went well. Got them from Subaru.
Keith