# My rear driver side strut/shock acts up depending on the weather

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/my-rear-driver-side-strut-shock-acts-up-depending-on-the-weather/67578>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Created:** [September 1, 2011, 11:20pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/my-rear-driver-side-strut-shock-acts-up-depending-on-the-weather/67578 "2011-09-01T23:20:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![sabata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f475e1/32.png) [@sabata](https://community.cartalk.com/u/sabata)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2011, 11:20pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/my-rear-driver-side-strut-shock-acts-up-depending-on-the-weather/67578/1 "2011-09-01T23:20:14Z")

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I have an 86 Toyota Tercel.I live in the Pacific NW.We pretty much have one season,rainy.My car is fine when it’s rainy,about 8-9 months of the year.It doesn’t rain in summer.A few weeks after it stops raining my rear driver side tire makes a clunking sound when I go over a bump.It goes away as soon as it starts raining again.The past two winters have been very cold,it got below freezing a few times.If it stays below freezing for more than a day or two,it seems like my strut(or whatever it is) freezes too.If I go over a bump I feel like I don’t have a suspension system at all.Any ideas?