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Date:         Wed, 7 Jul 2004 20:44:40 +0200
Reply-To:     Calle Fallberg <calle.fallberg@TELIA.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Calle Fallberg <calle.fallberg@TELIA.COM>
Subject:      Re: Opinions on Bilstein vs. KYB shocks desired
Comments: To: Mary Barbara <marybiba@hotmail.com>
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Mary Barbara wrote :
> I should have specified that the shocks had been on the bug for 9 years,
> well over 150000 miles, and of that, 15 miles a day on bad dirt road.


   WOW


Itīs just that Iīve been buying cheap aftermarket shocks myself a couple of
times and ended up with nothing but junk - and lots of work :-(


We have a really lowpriced company here in Sweden from which I bought coils
and shocks for the Rabbit diesel I had.
The car was Slooow but since I drive a lot on backroads and twotracks in
order to find somewhere to walk my dog I decided to buy "rally tested" !
They where KYB, painted yellow, stiff as a rock - and ready to change after
a year of careful driving because of leaking gaskets :-(
Even though I changed the coils at the same time !!!


But the biggest problem as I see it with cheap aftermarket parts are not so
much the guarantee - you could get new items many times - but that it so
often is a PITA to change them or pay somebody to change for you and that is
not covered for...


Calle
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