Hi, Guest
02-23-2015, 12:30 AM
(02-22-2015, 12:04 PM)Clay06St Wrote: So my best bet is to get the 00-05 struts with omni kit
My car is the 06 St an I have the 2000-2005 lowering springs
Sorry for stupid questions just new to focus and don't wanna order parts I don't have to
Right.
The issue is the "bottom" of the front springs. Early springs are straight like a tube - same diameter top to bottom.
Later springs, however, are tapered, the diameter at the top is bigger than the diameter at the bottom.
Accordingly the support that the bottom of the spring sits on, is a different diameter too - when comparing early struts to later struts.
Whatever else you do, you must match the year of the strut to the year of the spring. And if in doing so you end up with a front strut from 00-05 and you want to put that on 06+, then you need the omni kit.
And for greater clarity - when we say "05" and "06" as the changeover point, we really mean "05+" - the change took place sometime early in the 2005 model year - - so some early 2005's had the "old" setup.
The pic below isn't from Focus - but you can clearly see what I mean by tapered.
![[Image: strut_img.png]](http://www.monroe.com/images/products/english/prod_main_page/quickstrut/strut_img.png)
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