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Control arm/ball joint 850

posted by  B.B. on  Thu Jul 31 11:38 CST 2014
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Some of the parts places are claiming that Lemforder is the original OEM
mfgr for the Volvo control arms. I pulled the trigger on Moog this AM but strangely one place had only the left arm and one only the right in Moog.

I'm only speculating about what Volvo will do now that it is owned by the
Chinese. It seems to be the trend to supply cheap parts that look right and fit
and are dirt cheap and made out of shoddy material. The bad news on control arms is that you need to spring $70-80 to get the front end aligned and if the arm fails they don't cover alignment and labor, and in FCPs case they didn't honor their promise to give me credit for a bad part, now their second arm
(Meyle) failed.

I see that FCP is peddling Lemforder control arms now, but NOT to me.

I'll find out if the Moog arms are any good, and it's strange that on the Moog
website, they tell how to spot counterfeit Moog parts, so there's another parts problem, maybe there's counterfeit Meyle parts too.

Bill





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