I'm not prepared to say that country of origin is the main factor but many parts I have replaced in the last several years or so seem to have failed early. For example I had never seen a badly trashed lower ball joint on a Vanagon that did not involve first a bad boot. Then when doing some other work on my 82 Westy I noticed major play in a ball joint I had replaced just a few years before. Boot still good, grease still inside, but lots of vertical play in the joint. I checked the other side, same thing. Bad metallurgy is all I can say. Don't know the brand or country but they failed way before the originals. The originals almost lasted forever in comparison. Mark neil n wrote: > So sad. Pretty sure I installed Meyle lower ball joints. Might have > been Febi. Pass. side boot has a hole. Less than 7K km's on it. > > I did mistakenly make a "Dukes of Hazard" jump on a dark back road > shortly after install (good test eh?<grin>) but doubt that caused > it. Boot was installed "unstressed". > > So sad. > > Neil. > > > > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 12:20 PM, mark drillock<mdrillock@cox.net> wrote: >> I got some Febi/Bilstein upper control arm bushings, "Made in China" on >> the box. It is happening all over. >> >> Mark >> >> >> >> Jeff wrote: >>> >>> FYI... very, very little of the Meyle stuff is made in Germany these days >>> (hasn't been for quite a few years). >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Jeff >>> >> > > > > -- > Neil Nicholson '81 VanaJetta 2.0 "Jaco" > > http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/ > > http://groups.google.com/group/vanagons-with-vw-inline-4-cylinder-gas-engines > |
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