Enough is Enough Junk Parts

[the joker]

doing the frt end (winter project) buying parts from 3 different vendors

rec'd Bd's steering tie rod /end Meryle Germany???? box has white sticker on the back made in Turkey Tie rod end (made in germany stamped in the cap?) WTF sending it all back going with T3 and my stock rods


haven't rec'd the "new " rack from BD Hope for some kind of quality:?

[pablum]

I did hear he is going to make Merka great agin, but is there something wrong with turkish parts? I sincerely don't know. I thought china was the chaotic maelstrom of variable quality...
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[candyman]

As a general rule, i dont buy meyle anything. Especially suspension parts

[Merian]

[the joker]

Or better yet make the world economy such in a way that german companies will want to make the parts and there well paid workers will put in the quality ( the wall in Germany didn't work but we got good quality parts) What happened

[pablum]

[alijonny]

Hey now, there's nothing wrong with Turkish parts...

matter of fact, most factories producing your "german made" parts have a majority of Turkish workers...

The Turks in Germany are like the Mexican immigrants here...

I would be more concerned with Chinese made parts than Turkish made parts.
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[pablum]

[alijonny]

[Merian]

how can you exclude... Michigan, but the germans are in

you haf ein filter for flow-thru of der polish Michiganders but not der german Michiganders??

unt vat about der yuppers? maybe a stinking fish filter vud keep zem out
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[pablum]

nur die Michigooses, lieber freundchen. Tut mir leid.

Himmel Arsch und Zwirn!!!

Und vait chust a minute, Herr Merian, are you not one uff ze braun ones?
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[Terry Kay]

Rather than depending on the who knows where foreign parts vendors, and then bitching about their country of manufacture, has anyone here moved away from their computer screen and floated over to any legit local automotive parts supply houses and purchased Moog front end parts?

Way better quality than you're getting via the internet, and they do come with a lifetime warrantee. (At NAPA anyway)

This bitching pole situation is generated by not using your grey matter, and by being so cheap that you are winding up with garbage parts.

This is your fault, nobody else's.

You got what you paid for, Boo-Hoo.
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[Merian]

[Merian]

[pablum]

[vanagonjr]

[Terry Kay]

Most all of the front end parts are and have been available at any parts store, offered by manufacturers that have been around since Henry made Ford.

However this requires a bit of initiative and movement away from the keyboard to purchase locally, and have them in day's worth of waiting.

No cookies, no BS from GW, or the BD.

Isn't that amazing---
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[drumbum68]

Moog huh? How about 15 years ago when I tried to by moog balljoints for a beetle front end...42 bucks each. Opened the sealed box to see Nakata ball joints that I was then buying for 8 bucks. Asked the parts guy whats up with that...he said "If moog is good enough for nascar, it's good enough for you". Should I trust the name MOOG?

[drumbum68]

Or how about the Napa (echlin) ignition parts that I tried for a bosch 019 distibutor? Rotor was crapping out instantly and the carbon button in the cap too short and crap spring. Put used rotor and cap back (bosch), problem went away instantly.

[wcfvw69]