WHY SIDEM
STRUT MOUNTS?
For your safety, we provide strong strut mounts with superior rubber and excellent metal-to-rubber bonding. A lot of forces constantly act on strut mounts, ours are up for the task!
Stiffness, flexibility and Shore hardness are vital properties. Our strut mounts are tested in every possible way to ensure your driving comfort, stability and correct wheel alignment.
We don’t use just any bearing in our strut mounts. To allow smooth steering movements, we use thrust bearings which can handle load and impacts. This way, we ensure durable strut mounts!
Strut mounts make the vital connection between the suspension strut and the vehicle’s chassis. They serve multiple important purposes such as isolating road noise and vibrations, following suspension movements and maintaining correct wheel alignment. In MacPherson suspensions, they’re even a steering pivot.
Basically, a strut mount is like a silent block: they are a metal-to-rubber bonded bushing, mounted on the top of the damper at one side and to the chassis at the other. They act as a rubber cushion, dampening road noise and vibrations.
They’re not just any cushion though. With every in- and outward movement of the suspension, the camber and strut angle changes (following the lower ball joint movement). The strut mount allows this change in angle and therefore plays a crucial role in the wheel alignment!
The strut mounts in MacPherson suspensions work even harder:
- They act as a steering pivot, as the complete strut rotates along with every steering movement. Therefore, they contain a bearing, allowing steering rotations between the strut and the chassis.
- Along with this, they also take on (horizontal) bending forces which occur when the suspension is working. While the upper track control arms take over this task with multi-link and double wishbone suspensions, the MacPherson strut mounts have to do it all!
In-house production.
At Sidem, we produce in-house steering and suspension parts for the car assembly and replacement market. Both quality and production are in our DNA and that we are very proud of. Because we control every step in the production process, car mechanics and technicians – the experts in the market – can count on the best quality!
