Not really troubleshooting, just asking a question.
I’m replacing my early front struts with the later model ones. The top spring plates are different from side to side. One side, the left I think, is painted grey and has a single drain hole. The other is black with 2 holes. And they are physically slightly different as you can see in the side-on photos: the area the shock top goes through sticks out on the grey one.
I’ve checked on a couple of other sets of struts and they’re all the same.
US cars are the same according something I read on Ben’s (BNE Dynamics) website, so it isn’t a LHS v RHS thing.
Any idea why?