Vibration after new motor mounts

[mosten]

2012 TC XLT

 

i changed all three motor mounts with Anchor brand mounts.  I still have quite a bit of vibration at idle and on acceleration.  I wanted to see if this was common before I trash them and buy oem.  

 

In addition, there is a lot of engine lash under load (although I think this is normal but annoying).  Is this other people’s experience?

[Beta Don]

OEM mounts are usually engineered for maximum passenger compartment comfort, so when that's an important consideration, I always stick with those.  Aftermarket mounts come it two types.  High performance mounts which limits the drive train's ability to move to basically no movement at all and to heck with creature comfort and then the odd off brands whose only selling point is they're cheaper than OEM mounts

 

I assume your original mounts were found to be separated? . . . . otherwise, you wouldn't have gone to the time and expense to change them, right?

 

Don

[mosten]

The original mounts were really bad.  193k on them from what I can tell.  I replaced with aftermarket Anchor brand.

 

what I’m really after is anyone else that’s gone aftermarket cheap and had a similar experience before I spend 8x on OEM.

[stanger_missle]

I put Anchor mounts in my 1986 Honda CRX and noticed that they allowed more vibration than the old mounts. My guess is that they use a higher durometer rubber in the cheaper aftermarket mounts. The OEM engine mounts are carefully engineered to control NVH but I'm sure the aftermarket use "close enough" engineering. Its especially noticeable on 4 cylinders which are inherently unbalanced.

 

It sucks because the OEM engine mounts are stupid expensive but you might get better results with them.

Edited August 23, 2019 by stanger_missle
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