not quite: your inserts can be used no matter what is in the car. if it is original, you can either use the cartridge or rebuild the existing strut. If someone already installed cartridges, you must also use a cartridge. unless you can find some original struts to rebuild.seancromie wrote:so if the strut cartridges have been swapped out before i won't be able to do it again? i just got them!!
No one to my knowledge rebuilds old tercel struts anymore, a few companies do it for more popular vintage cars (like a GTS corolla, or an MR2), but not the Tercel.