[s-cars] hamburg technic

[Wylie Bean]

Bob, using your logic with dealer-bought front upper strut mounts after destroying 2 sets of Autohaus AZ specials in just under 10K miles. I'm hoping for the best but fearing the worst as those 'telltale' noises have returned.  We'll see.
 
Wylie Bean
TheRingmeister at triad.rr.com
90 cq
91 90q20v
92 UrS4
08 Q7 3.6
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-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Rossato <rossato.qlist at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:41:39 
To: 'Tom Green'<trgreen at comcast.net>; 'chris chambers'<fastscirocco_2000 at yahoo.com>
Cc: 'Scarlist'<s-car-list at audifans.com>
Subject: Re: [s-cars] hamburg technic

FWLIMBW, I replaced my rear control arms with Febi/Bilstein ones a
couple of years ago because I couldn't find TRW or Lemforder and figured
Febi should be pretty good.  They started squeaking after 15k miles.  

At this point but don't want to resign myself to replacing these things
every year or so, therefore I'm just going to bite the bullet and buy
some from the dealer.  Hopefully what Audi provides is at least as good
as they were when the car was originally built.  Mine lasted around 100k
miles, which is acceptable.

bob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com 
> [mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of Tom Green
> Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 12:54 PM
> To: chris chambers
> Cc: Scarlist
> Subject: Re: [s-cars] hamburg technic
> 
> 
> Chris,
> 
> I bought some hamburg-techik rear control arms for the S6 sedan to  
> cure a squeaking original after I got tired of squirting 
> grease in it  
> with a needle nosed fitting.  I should have just
> stuck with the original.  These squeak worse than before 
> after only a  
> year and the rubber bushing has totally disintegrated.  It started  
> showing cracks like dry rot after only a few months.  I don't 
> see any  
> ball joint problems with them, but the original ball joints looked  
> fine also.  There is not much movement in them like the front is  
> subjected to.  These were from an ebay seller deutche-parts and half  
> the price of Febi arms, so I should have known.
> 
> I see lots of comments about the casting looks.   I have never heard  
> of a structural problem with any of these parts.  It is always the  
> rubber quality in the bushings and ball joint quality.  I have the  
> Karlyn arms on the front of my sedan with 2 years/20K miles on them  
> with no issues at all.  Blau was selling them and they had vw/audi  
> stickers and 4 rings on them, but I later found out from 
> Pelican parts  
> that they were Karlyn arms (a NY company that confirmed the 
> arms were  
> manufactured in Taiwan).  Pelican sells them for about half
> what Blau charged for them.
> 
> I carry a hamburg-technik POS in the glove box for a spare.  
> It tested  
> ok at 20 psi boost so I figured it would get me home if one failed,  
> but I would have never bought it for a regular replacement 
> part.  They  
> source parts from India, Turkey, Croatia, and Serbia.  I think their  
> good stuff comes from China.  :-)
> 
> It's pretty much a crap-shoot on the origin of parts now, but 
> we know  
> FEQ is Chinese, and Febi and Meyle source from China.  There is no  
> reason that high quality parts can't be made there;  it's just a  
> matter of quality control and oversight, not the cheapest bid.
> 
> Tom
> 
> 
> 
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