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Originally Posted by 8RZ
Doesn't that mean wheel bearings??
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depends on the kind of motion, a dead wheel bearing would be play in the wheel, you wouldn't be articulating the suspension to show it and without having an eye on the hub to see if the motion is wheel to hub, or hub to control arms you can't be sure if it's a bearing or a ball joint.
Soft travel can be indicative of a dead shock, but unless the spring is dead or the mechanic has a side job as a power lifter I wouldn't describe the wheel motion as 'easy', and there's lots of cars with 400k+ with springs that are perfectly fine so I'm not sure what's going on.
If I had to replace dampers for OE-purposes I'd lean towards Bilstein, those are pretty commonly regarded as having a ~100k mile life and can be rebuilt for half the cost of buying another set or about the same price as buying a cheap set of shocks, which are usually only good for ~20k-50k miles.