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suspension - oem vs. trw vs. scantech

Just spent about 3 hours making my suspension like new in my 98 S70 w/103K miles on it. Replaced the control arms, tie rod ends, and sway bar links. Everything is much tighter now. FYI, the control arms were OEM and not in bad shape...most likely original (purchased car at 80K), the tie rod ends were TRW and in pretty bad shape (once again, I don't know when they were replaced last but since they are TRW they must have been). The sway bar links are less than 1 year old and were scan-tech. I could not believe how shot these were with only 10K miles on them. I replaced all the parts with OEM from Boston Volvo (great prices and fast service). I won't buy scan-tech again...it seems fairly cheap stuff and not worth saving a few bucks for short life.







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