Lemfoerder control arms

[DeWitt Harrison]

Did you mean www.blauparts.com? I have purchased
parts from them before with mixed results. The control
arms I'm replacing came from BLAUfergnugen. They
lasted about 10,000 miles before the rubber distintigrated
around the steel center bushings at the chassis ends.
Made in China? Totally pitiful if you ask me. That isn't
the first time they've sold me poor quality parts. Door
handles come to mind. A a/c dryer that didn't fit also
comes to mind. But some stuff worked. It's a crap shoot
with them in my experience. And I don't know whether
times have changed, but they used to be famous for tossing
heavy bits like brake calipers into the same box as
Euro headlights without padding and just let it all shake,
rattle and roll together via UPS Ground.

DeWitt Harrison
'88 5kcstq

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Max Wellhouse" <maxjoyce at ipa.net>
To: "DeWitt Harrison" <six-rs at comcast.net>
Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 9:20 AM
Subject: Re: Lemfoerder control arms


De Witt:  Have you checked out the control arms 
Blua parts is marketing?  I don't know anything 
about your specific issue, but the catalogue they 
sent me had what appeared to be aftermarket high 
quality arms.   www.bluaparts.com   I've been wrong before though!!

Max

At 09:39 AM 7/26/2005, you wrote:
>I'm having the hardest time locating genuine Lemfoerder (actually "Lemförder")
>lower control arms for my '88 5kcstq. Everywhere I turn it's either cheap
>Italian or Brazilian knockoffs (can we say 
>Febi?) or bogus Lemfoerder stuff from
>China packaged with Lemfoerder labeling (but with TRW ball joints and Boge
>bushings in a, God only knows, iron casting.
>
>The closest I came was a parts importer who located good parts in Germany
>but requird a large quanity order to bring the pieces over.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Thanks,
>
>DeWitt Harrison
>'88 5kcstq
>
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