nugget68

is this normal? I just replaced a sticky caliper yesterday in my 05, build date of 11\04. Autozone said two different calipers were given for the 05 year, depending on build date, up to 11/29/04 and after, which was a little confusing since it doesn't have day of build on the door tag, but we compared the one I took off to the new one and it seemed to match. When I drive and hit a bump now I hear a thud, thinking maybe I might have the wrong caliper I pulled the wheel back off, but all seemed OK, then I noticed this on my lower strut bushing, need replacing, or is this normal?

techrep

iTrader: (1)

That's your thud..

PerryB

Yep.
As to the build date, they made it artificially confusing. Anything built in the 11th month of '04 (or earlier of course) is early style. From what I could determine there was no 11/30/04 production. I just went through this with my early style '05. The differences are very subtle and hard to detect. The caliper pin boots are slightly different and there is a slight design change in the pistons. It took me a couple minutes of examining the pieces, with my glasses on no less, to determine the differences.
P.S. After scrutinizing the picture, it looks kind of like that bird splat weld is cracking where the strut rod meets the eye bushing.

nugget68

I'm thinking it might be the caliper because it wasn't making the noise with the other caliper...

nugget68

I just took the strut loose and the bushing is fine... also called Autozone and the gave me the earlier caliper, which is what I need...