Your suspension and steering systems do their best work when you never think about them — soaking up Denton’s rough pavement, holding the car steady in an emergency lane change, keeping the tires planted where the brakes and steering need them. When those systems wear, the change is gradual: a little more float over bumps, a little more body lean in corners, a steering wheel that feels less connected than it used to. By the time it’s obvious, it’s usually been developing for tens of thousands of miles.
At All About Imports, suspension and steering work is one of the services Denton drivers bring us most. We’ve been keeping Japanese and Asian imports riding and handling the way their engineers intended since 2011 — at independent-shop prices.
We diagnose and repair the full suspension and steering system on every make we service — from a Corolla’s daily-driver setup to a Lexus’s comfort-tuned ride:
Tie rods and steering linkage — the parts that translate your steering wheel into actual direction
Worn suspension is usually described as a comfort problem — a rougher ride, more noise over bumps. But the real cost is control. Your shocks and struts keep the tires pressed against the road; when they wear, the tires spend more time skipping and less time gripping. That lengthens stopping distances even when your brake system service is perfectly up to date, because brakes can only slow tires that are touching pavement.
Worn suspension components are also expensive company. Bad shocks accelerate tire wear in cupped, uneven patterns. Loose ball joints and tie rods let the alignment drift, which chews through tires from a different direction. One worn part quietly bills you through several others — which is why catching suspension wear early, during scheduled maintenance, costs a fraction of ignoring it.
Any one of these is worth an inspection. Several together usually means the wear has been building for a while — and the sooner it’s diagnosed, the shorter the parts list tends to be.
Suspension design varies more between makes than almost any other system — a Toyota daily driver, a Subaru with all-wheel drive, and a comfort-tuned Lexus each ride on different engineering and wear differently. Because imports are all we work on, we see these exact systems every day and know their patterns: which bushings go first, which models develop strut noise early, which steering racks to watch.
We’re a family-owned Denton shop, serving import owners since 2011. We use quality parts matched to your vehicle, we recommend replacing what’s worn rather than everything in the neighborhood — and nothing gets repaired until we’ve walked you through what we found and you’ve approved the work.
We replace them in pairs per axle. A new shock on one side and a worn one on the other respond differently to the same bump, which unbalances handling and braking — the industry-standard practice of replacing in pairs exists for good reason, and we follow it.
Yes. Braking depends on tire contact with the road, and the suspension’s job is keeping that contact constant. Worn shocks let the tires skip over bumps and let the nose dive under hard braking, both of which lengthen stopping distance. If braking feel has changed, it’s worth having both systems inspected together — see our brake system service.
We put the vehicle on the lift and check every wear point — shocks and struts for leaks and damage, ball joints and tie rods for play, bushings for cracking, wheel bearings for roughness — then road test to confirm what the parts are telling us. You get a straight report of what’s worn, what’s fine, and what can safely wait. Schedule an inspection and we’ll tell you exactly where your vehicle stands.
If your import doesn’t ride or steer the way it used to, let’s find out why.
Call 940-566-2125
Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM. Night drop is available on the side of the building.