Volkswagen's Jetta is tough compare to any other car. Technically speaking, it's just one of dozens of cars in the compact-to-midsized sedan marketplace, filled to the brim with models from America, Japan and Korea. But few other manufacturers have built the kind of rabid fanbase that VW has with the Jetta, which has gone on to become the best-selling European car in all of North America.
Strut replacement on a Jetta is a fairly straightforward affair, as procedures on German cars go. Both the upper strut bolts and the lower pinch bolt get 44 foot-pounds of torque, and the lower pinch bolt gets a further 90-degree turn past that. If you're installing new struts, the CV joint bolts get 40 foot-pounds, the stabilizer bar gets 11 foot-pounds, the brake caliper takes 22 foot-pounds and the wheel lugs require 87 foot-pounds.
