Re: Confusion on Shocks.. and more

[Bob Kunz <bkunz@hpbs114.boi.hp.com>]

> 
> On Mon, 18 Dec 1995, Mark Shilling wrote:
> 
> > OK Guys,
> > 
> > 
> > So what's the deal with KYB, and why does everybody want to sell them to
> > me? ...
> 
> Id be willing to bet he's full of crap. Ive had a few pairs of KYB's and 
> all of them went to hell within 6 months. Sure... free replacement, but 
> who pays the labor! Its no easy task on the Q's.  DONT DO IT!!! KYB'S 
> SUCK!!! ANYONE WHO TELLS YOU OTHERWISE IS WRONG!!!

When my '86 5ks wagon needed shocks, I too wanted to get the Boge but
happened to walk in to the local shop here and KYB's were on sale. What
the heck, I got 'em, free use of the spring tool too, lifetime warranty,
blah, blah, blah....

They've been on the car now 10K miles and are just fine. Sure I could
have payed 2x for the Boge, maybe get them out of stock (maybe not), and
perhaps have them be the wrong ones. I went with the local shop. Nice
guys, great advice, problems fixed quickly.

Now, I have the same story as Bob D. with Gabriel Silver E's on my yvehC 
K3500. They would literaly fall apart after 600 or so miles of highway
use. I replaced them 3 times and finally went with Rancho 9000 which
have done remarkably well after 15K miles.

I guess the only lesson here is, don't make your decision based on the
anecdotal evidence of one or two examples. I wouldn't buy Gabriels
again but that doesn't mean you couldn't.

Come to think of it, I said that about Pirelli's back in 1977 but just
got a set of Winter 190's for the 5k. We'll see how that works out....

One of the few, the proud, the only real.... Bob

Bob Kunz
bkunz@boi.hp.com

PS: Notice that that last name is German. Isn't that a requirement for
    owning a German automobile. What happened to you other guys?  :-)