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Re: The $60 Control Arm...Anyone have Success? Posted by SWEDECAR [Email]  (#112)  [Profile/Gallery]
(more from SWEDECAR) on Wed, 20 Nov 2013 08:19:56
In Reply to: The $60 Control Arm...Anyone have Success?, RBatsch, Wed, 20 Nov 2013 07:17:35 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
Are you sure you got the real deal genuine last times? They usually last longer than that unless you have some really bad road or weather conditions where you live.
Well, I think you are pretty close to the truth here.
< Are there really that many manufacturers out there or are they all coming from one or two factories?>
The beauty with Chinese manufacturing (or rest of the world) is that anyone can go there and have their logo printed on the part from the same company.
But there is also a flood of pop up company's that copy each other or hopefully the real deal genuine part and crank out their own version using the cheapest material available.
It's starting to get pretty disgusting in that you can't trust anyone but you have to learn the hard way over and over again or inspect the product carefully and see if it is anything you want to put on your car.
I had an incident that made me sick to my stomach last week.
Customer asked me to replace the clutch cable on his 900 preventively since he is aware of their shortcomings. By the way, this customer drives 6 hours to me when he have big service and repairs lined up.
I could only find a ProPart cable and installed it but the clutch pedal was much much harder to press than with his old cable so I couldn't release the car to him.
I ordered a Saab genuine cable from the new local supplier of genuine Saab parts and my mood sank to a new low when it arrived. See picture.
I decided to fill it with grease and see if it would work better than installing it dry like I have done with all others and it seemed to work ok but the customer called 1.5 hours away and said he could hardly shift gear and had to turn around.
Sure enough, the clutch pedal had to be pushed into the floor boards to make the gears go in and the strange part was that it was not a lot of freeplay in the pedal like when the self adjuster has let go.
I had to dig out his old cable from the trashcan and install and he made it back home with that one no problem but now we are stuck not being able to find the old genuine style cable but only the ProPart or the manually adjusted ones which don't work that well either.
Anders
, Sat, 23 Nov 2013 15:27:18, Wed, 20 Nov 2013 08:19:56 <-- Viewing This Message
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