I put Monroe struts on my 2008 DTS. They were easy to install. The ride is great.

 

+1 for the Monroe quick struts. Easy to install the ride is great, the ride height was unchanged. I bought mine from rock auto for approx. $300 including shipping. By the way, the only reason I changed them out was because of the same strut bearing issue you describe. The clunk went away after installing the new quick struts.

 

Cool...cheers guys!

 

+2 on the monroes! BUT BE FOREWARNED! NEVER, ABSOLUTLEY NEVER EVER BUY QUICK STRUTS FROM A COMPANY CALLED DETROIT AXLE! They sold me quick struts claiming to be OEM replacements. They may have been the right strut but with too much of a heavy duty spring, or vice versa. Not sure but they made my Cadillac ride too high in the front. About several grand in new parts and taking it to everyone to figure it out, I finally went to a guy in Maryland named Mike Duda who figured it out in just a few minutes. The car was sitting too high up front and wore out my axles. Contacting them back, they never returned my request to buy them back even with me shipping them back. So I have two new struts sitting on my porch useless that ran me like $250.

I put on new Monroes front and rear and used my old springs that he put on the new struts and the probelm was solved after about 9 months of trying to fix the issues of vibration due to Detroit Axles incorrect quick struts and the car sitting so high, the knuckles on the axles were locking up when I hit the gas due to the front end going up, the control arms going down and the struts pushing the control arms so far down the knuckles on the axles were locking up.

Monroes are GREAT though!

 

I went the OEM route. New front everything, even tie rods and OEM rear air shocks. The ride did get stiffer. I think OEM parts were made firmer for replacements. I had two different GM part numbers and the newer one was stiffer when tested off vehicle. I started all this for same reason. SAD part not even a year latter I herd the issue again come back this week. Slight knock if you turn wheel back and forth. I need to look into it but no rush.

 

Yeh, mine has that loud CLICK now too when I hit the gas after a hard stop. Or put it in reverse and hit it hard and I get that loud CLICK! Something on the front left wheel. Who knows. I'm so tired of dealing with the constant General Mess problems on my DTS that I'm finally sold on getting rid of it as soon as I can afford to buy another car and to be honest, GM makes a pretty car, but I'm moving on. My father had like 26 in his life. I have had about 6. I'm done. BWM is where I'm heading and I'm never going to look back. Tired of spending my paychecks to fix what the UAW should have spent time making perfect day one.

 

GM makes a pretty car, but I'm moving on. My father had like 26 in his life. I have had about 6. I'm done. BWM is where I'm heading and I'm never going to look back. Tired of spending my paychecks to fix what the UAW should have spent time making perfect day one.

I find this funny. I have a friend that just unloaded their BMW because it was sucking their pockets dry. and they moved back to Cadillac.

 

Good luck with BMW...I hear that German engineering is second to none.

 

The cost of bmw parts is also second to none.

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have you ever had the car aligned? I recently went to an independent spring shop with my 2008 dts. I needed two outer tie rod ends and a lower control arm because the fluid leaked out of the lower control arm bushing. I would venture to quess that the outer tire wear is due to front end parts issues and not the struts. Sometimes the dealers come up with answers that make no sense. be carefull. if your car just needs an alignment the cost will be less than $100 generally and is well worth it,.

 

I have a buddy that bought a BMW coming off lease. He's never had a problem with it and loves it. You get what you pay for. Parts may be expensive but I do my own work when I can do it so I'm willing to pay the bucks if it were to break down. I'm sure it will never break down anywhere near as much as this nightmare Cadillac has. I'm over the $7K mark now if I have to buy $500 in new motor mounts. The list is long. It's broke down about every month to every other month since I got it for six years now. I doubt the BMW will do that. Japanese or BMW owners, you never hear them complaining about the reliability of their cars. OR having to constantly take it to be fixed.

I agree with the alignment DDOWERS. But I'd take it to Merchant. Mr. Tire is a joke. And the dealer, in my case, didn't adjust the camber bolts and handed me the car back still yanking when it felt like it. Guy in the office said to me, "When I drove it, it did something that was scary. Quite frankly, I don't think it's safe to drive." He was talking about the front end speed wobble it had if you moved the steering wheel at higher speeds back and forth and let go of the wheel. It would go bizzerk. That was all Camber that I eventually found out when I took it to Merchant about a few weeks later. I though it was shocks, I had replaced tie rods, control arms, I put a TON OF MONEY into my front end, all new parts, did the work myself, and still, had that problem. Merchant fixed it with those two adjustable camber bolts.

By the way, that clicking noise might be your engine mount cracked. I heard mine a few weeks back and thought, here we go again! Now I see my motor jumping and realize the motor mounts are cracked. Again. When I bought it, four of the five were cracked. The dealer put four more on under warranty with just five days left.

 

Me too. Clearly he's never been to a BMW forum or a Japanese car forum....

But what do I know? His buddy has a trouble free BMW, and I just have a trouble free Cadillac. So does my dad.

 

I wish I had a trouble free Cadillac dts. the thing is nothing but constant problems at 85 k.

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a good alignment shop would have found the bad camber bolts. I never go to a tire place that does alignments. I go to truck front end and spring shop for my alignments.