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QUESTION:

I HAVE A 2004 FORD F150 SUPERCREW(

) WITH AN ANNOYING “BUMP” OR RATTLE  IN THE FRONT END WHEN TRAVELING OVER ROUGH ROADS. I HAD THE FRONT END CHECKED AND THE SHOP SAID EVERYTHING WAS TIGHT. COULD THIS BE THE STRUTS OR STRUT MOUNTS? The truck has 140k miles.

ANSWER:

It’s always best to go with what the mechanic says, only because we cannot see the vehicle or have access to it.There are a lot of parts on a suspension, it could be almost anything. Struts themselves would not make a noise. They are just a hydraulic cylinder. Mounts typically squek and click when one goes bad.Both of these, especially the mount, are easy for a mechanic to check. But it sounds like they did that already. Normaly if a strut / shock is bad, you will get really bad tire wear, so if the tire wear is good, it’s probably something else. But that’s just a guess, all we can do via internet.