Hi,

For What It’s Worth, I think you are making a good choice not to get into those struts and mess around with what’s working.
I didn’t put forth a thought earlier on the strut question.
IMO for what we pay for these cars @ 120,000 miles on struts, that shouldn’t be a sign of bad unless the car was abused.
You didn’t answer, if the car was new to you, in both ways that it can be!

You like the ride, so they must be working just fine.
Any groaning or popping when turning is a sign of bad strut support bearings.
I didn’t detect any concern with any of that in your posts.

Having tires that are getting tiny wear dips or divots in patches of the tread blocks is a sign of a bouncing tire or a tired belting or carcass.
Struts get unduly blamed for a myriad of reasons, in the name of “quality care sales” and so forth!

There is no need for new dampeners, just evaluate the tires quality at that point, to assess whether to buy them again!
This has to happen near the end of their tread life.
So don’t buy struts or rear shocks, when the tires, are telling you a story.

The gas charges will have go first or with some oil showing. Until then, you are good!
You want to keep seeing a smooth round tire wear all around and across the face.

If you do a lot of paved mountain road driving then the outsides can show some strain for that!
It why it is best to keep them rotated front to rear.

If the toe-in is knocked in some manner, you can spot that just as easily as it should be worse on one tire over the other, especially knowing it’s broken. Forgetting you have a broken or weakened spring is very believable!
A cracked or broken spring only effects ride height, if it collapsed. The actual structural integrity is held by the strut mounting and control arms.
I’m sure that there has to be some handling degrading.
You are going to have to put several miles on there to get accumulated wear.
In knowing the humans adaptability with getting use to the way the car handles, can be absorbed.

Yep, do the repair incrementally?
Brakes are always needing an overseer, so you are making sense to me!
(:-)

Phil