Hey guys,

I bought my car new, and my car currently has 165K miles on it almost all highway miles.
I noticed when going over bumps its not smooth like it was before.

I decided to get 2 new compression rods with the bushings to fix that clunk.
I also got the tokico blues front and rear (shocks and struts). 2 OEM rear stabilizer links.

I feel much improvement with the compression rods, but very little improvement with the tokikos. What I'm worried about is, I didn't get new strut mounts or replace any of the coils or springs. My neighbor mechanic said I didn't need the strut sleeve or mount so we just used those old parts with the Tokikos.

The car just still feels old when driving it, I'm trying to get a better feel suspension wise.
When going over bumps you can still hear that thud randomly. I'm confused whether or not Tokiko blues are just crap, or I need to install new springs or coils or something else.

Any suggestions?

 

I replaced a passenger rear wheel bearing. I'm trying to decide if I need the driver side rear bearing also, cause there is this ROAR noise.

Inside the car there is this roaring sound you can hear when accelerating of pressing the gas and the sound gets louder and deeper as I go faster. If at idle the ROAR loud noise levels also.

I am confused as what this could be, it is definately coming from the rear, and it gets LOUD inside but you cant hear the noise from the outside.

I replaced fullset of pads and rotors, 1 caliper, and 2 rear stabilzer links.

I need help to what this annoying noise is.