One of my rear struts was making racket, so I'm in the process of replacing it. When I slid the (fake) boot off the old strut, the bump stop came out in crumbs. The biggest piece was a half inch. My car is pampered, garaged, has only 85K miles; if my bump stops have crumbled, y'all's are surely long gone by now.
Not the biggest deal I guess, especially if you never drive it hard enough to hit the limit of suspension travel. If you do, though, you could cause damage to more expensive parts. Note that there are 4 bump stops on a Proteg5, one each corner. You can look at them easily; just jam a ruler through the coil spring and slide that fake boot up until you can see the strut shaft. The bump stop should be right there within the bottom of the fake boot.
Easy to replace, but it does require a spring compressor. You can borrow a spring compressor from AutoZone for free.
The hard part is finding replacement bump stops. My policy is: If the OEM part failed for no good reason, I'll be looking to aftermarket for a replacement. So far, the best option seems to be ProThane 6-1302. These poly items are 50mm diameter and 50mm tall with a 17mm hole in the base. That hole is too small, needs to be a loose fit on a 20mm strut shaft, but it proved pretty easy to ream it out with a Dremel.
My only concern is that these poly bump stops are really hard, harder than I think they should be. Better than no bump stops at all, surely, but hard enough that I kinda doubt they'll compress much at all when hit.
Not the biggest deal I guess, especially if you never drive it hard enough to hit the limit of suspension travel. If you do, though, you could cause damage to more expensive parts. Note that there are 4 bump stops on a Proteg5, one each corner. You can look at them easily; just jam a ruler through the coil spring and slide that fake boot up until you can see the strut shaft. The bump stop should be right there within the bottom of the fake boot.
Easy to replace, but it does require a spring compressor. You can borrow a spring compressor from AutoZone for free.
The hard part is finding replacement bump stops. My policy is: If the OEM part failed for no good reason, I'll be looking to aftermarket for a replacement. So far, the best option seems to be ProThane 6-1302. These poly items are 50mm diameter and 50mm tall with a 17mm hole in the base. That hole is too small, needs to be a loose fit on a 20mm strut shaft, but it proved pretty easy to ream it out with a Dremel.
My only concern is that these poly bump stops are really hard, harder than I think they should be. Better than no bump stops at all, surely, but hard enough that I kinda doubt they'll compress much at all when hit.