[s-cars] Looking at suspension parts,

[chris chambers]

Steve,

I sent my list toAnthony and German auto parts for a quote, and he will
be including the brand info.

Is it your view that any brand but meyle is a good brand?
Unfortunately I don't knoiw what brands to avoid.

Thanks
Chris


--- "Young, Steve" <sryoung at trane.com> wrote:

> 
> 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
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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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