Axemurderer23

I have a 98 ek hatch to get to the back struts, how do you go abouts doin it? what cover do you remove? Want to lower it

VX

WTF?

piscorpio

Do you want to remove your rear struts?

There are two nuts on the top of the strut assembly, that need to be removed in order to detach it from the body, not the middle one. Then there is the lower shock fork bolt, that attaches it to the lower control arm of the suspension. Get all those off, and you have your strut assembly removed from the car. Now you just need to compress the spring and remove the remaining nut at the top of the shock, and you can remove the springs and replace them with lowering springs.

Axemurderer23

Thanks alot for the info, but do you have to get inside of the hatch and remove the rear covers over the wheel wells

EL Vap133

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There are some removeable covers that you can take off to get to the nuts you need to take off....

piscorpio

No, you have to basically go in your trunk and find the top of the shock from the inside of your car. Not sure how the 98 hatchback is, but with my 00 coupe, I just had to pull up the carpet in the trunk and the top of the struts were right there. My 92 hatchback has little plastic covers over the tops of the strut assembly that you just pop off, so maybe yours is like that.