Recent content by barneygarrett10

Worth checking the spring isolators first — those rubber pads the coil spring actually sits on, top and bottom. Easy to reuse them when pulling struts apart and not notice they've gone hard or dry, and the spring rotates slightly as it compresses under load, which is exactly when you'd hear it...

That address mix-up definitely explains the contradictions you were finding. Physical and functional are easy to conflate when you're pulling from different sources, and if your decoder isn't explicitly distinguishing between them, you'll be chasing phantom bugs for hours.