[s-cars] Looking at suspension parts,

Thu Jul 31 12:14:31 PDT 2008

Mark, the owner of GermanAutoParts, is a good guy and is a sponsor of
//SFest.  He has always been fair and has accepted returns with no
issues.  I don't buy Meyle either, so I call and they look at their
stock.  If all they have is Meyle, I go elsewhere, but many times they
have more than one brand in stock. 

Regards,

Steven Young
Area Operations Manager - Albany
____________________________________TRANE
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Tel: 518.724.1453
Fax: 518.785.4359

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-----Original Message-----
From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com
[mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of chris chambers
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 2:25 PM
To: Tom Green; s-car-list at audifans.com
Subject: Re: [s-cars] Looking at suspension parts,

Tom,

thanks for the input, for some reason I thought Moog and Beck-Arnley
were good brands to trust! LOL

The parts I'm looking for include:

Rear subframe bushings
rear wheel bearing 82 mm
shock Boge Turbo Gas 32-115F
rear stabalizer bar link kit
rear stabalizer bar bushing
rear tie rod left
rear tie rod right
rear brake lines
anti lock brakes pressure metering valve front upper strut bearings
front upper strut mounts strut Boge Turbo Gas 32-402F tie rod end left
tie rod end right Lower control arm right Lower control arm left front
lower control arm stabilizer bushings

Finding all these parts in one place, let alone in reliable brands
hasn't proven to be difficult.

Germanautoparts.com seems to have Meyle, which I've learned to distrust,
but they do have the best pricing on the boge shocks/struts.

Any thoughts?

Thanks
Chris

--- Tom Green <trgreen at comcast.net> wrote:

> That sounds like tie rod ends you had the problem with, Chris.
> You will see a lot of original parts rusted in place because the 
> plating was inadequate or non-existent. Most suppliers have gotten 
> better at that, but you don't know for sure until you open the box.
> 
> Ideally, you would like several thousand Germans to test these
> individual> parts for you.  That's where the preference for Febi,
Lemforder,  
> Bilstein,
> Eibach, FAG, etc, came from, but traditional manufacturing is changing

> in Germany just as it did here.  Plants moved to the former eastern 
> bloc countries and some are now sliding toward China.
> 
> If you can buy from a place where you can have them open the box at 
> the counter and they have a solid, no-hassle return policy, you can 
> assess some quality yourself.  The labor installing suspension parts 
> has to be considered in your plan, since that is a sunk cost-maybe 
> twice.  :-) Convince the parts place that it is a defective part you 
> installed correctly or you will eat the parts cost as well since most 
> parts will be special order.
> 
> Specifically, Moog--always take TRW instead, unless they suddenly drop

> the price by 50%.  Spicer is better know for US parts.  I would doubt
>  
> their
> ability to catalog S4/S6 parts properly.  Beck-Arnley is a value-added

> supplier, the foreign car JC Whitney.  They repackage parts from
> world-
> wide suppliers with a mark-up in price.  I doubt their catalogs are 
> good enough to identify the URS specific parts.  You can usually see a

> red
>  
> flag
> on these catalogs that lump A6/S6 parts together.  This is not the 
> place to get the part when time is important unless there is no 
> question it is correct.
> 
> If you use the ETKA and use online suppliers with a good reputation 
> for
> S4/S6 parts, and call or email if in doubt, you will do as well as 
> these marginal suppliers that try to cover everything.  I like to 
> include dealer pricing in the search at the best discount place I 
> know, but the online catalog for genuinevwaudiparts.com or Audi Parts 
> Depot (Riverside
> Audi)
> is almost useless unless you check by part #.
> 
> Tom
> 
> 
> > Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:21:28 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: chris chambers <fastscirocco_2000 at yahoo.com>
> > Subject: [s-cars] Looking at suspension parts,	are any of these
> brands
> > 	bad? Moog, Beck Arnley, Spicer
> > To: Scar <s-car-list at audifans.com>
> > Message-ID: <89115.4528.qm at web65414.mail.ac4.yahoo.com>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
> >
> > Are there any brands I should consider?
> >
> > I've ruled out meyle, although a couple suppliers claim they haven't

> > had ANY problem with Meyle, every Meyle part I have bought has 
> > rusted/seized fast.
> 
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