thinking of buying this but

[zacatecas]

the price is to good to be true for all these items.has anyone bought something like this before.i also looked at TAS and for
$185.00 i get
2 Front upper control arms w/ ball joints
2 Front lower ball joints
2 Rear upper control arms with ball joints and for

$115.00 i get
2 upper control arm with ball joints and bushings
2 Lower ball joints
2 Outer tie rods ends
2 Inner tie rods ends
2 Sway bar links (Stabilizer Link)

[noobcake]

link to top one

[bcjammerx]

You should get OEM lowers (not exp.) ...I would not go with those lower bj's.

[noobcake]

You should get OEM lowers (not exp.) ...I would not go with those lower bj's.

please explain why you feel this way.

[mj213]

Because he's a fucking ass!!! LOL J/K!

I recall bcjammerx having this convo on another thread. Something to do with him either having a negative experience, or that he doesn't feel comfortable "cheaping out" on parts like that.

[slammed4thgen]

hit a pothole and bye bye brand new upper joint.

i am still using the front uppers and lowers, but they look like shit already even before my joint killing drop.

[noobcake]

wasnt it his lower

[slammed4thgen]

wasnt it his lower

no

[noobcake]

waitwaitwait

your upper went?
or bcjammerx's?

[slammed4thgen]

waitwaitwait

your upper went?
or bcjammerx's?

bcjammer

[noobcake]

I have. One person posted that the parts manufactuerer wasn't that great (tas doesn't make these they just sell 'em)...and that you should expect 2yrs out of 'em.

As to their construction, it isn't the best. The groove for the snap ring is too shallow, the snap ring is the only thing really holding that upper joint in, it is pressed in but it doesn't seem tight at all.

However, even new OEM joints are made like this...even your stock ones are...But I can not speak as to how "tight" the OEM replacments are nor other replacements other than those sold by tas...as I have only had the original ones and these tas ones.

The OEM lower joints are NOT expensive and you would be better getting them.

I hit pot holes all the time...did so 2-3x's with my original 15year old ball joints, bent my steelies 2x's. Ball joints were fine. Old...but never failed on me.

The day I installed these I got ran off the road, hit a pot hole (not near as bad as the previous times) and pushed the ball joint right out of the arm.


Granted...it WAS a good hit...but a 15year old ball joint took 3x's the abuse...AT 15 years old...these couldn't hang at one day old.

You can get 'em...but I would NOT recommend the lowers...get OEM. I am using their a-arms with spc joints

from this post, it sounds as if he is speaking about his lower's failing on him.

[Leung]

lol that was from my thread where i was looking into the same TAS kit with ball joints.

[noobcake]

the oem LBJ's are only about 20 a peice.
and the UCA's from tas are 60 a piece.

so 160 total. minus the RUCA's

not bad considering the semi-quality parts.

[bcjammerx]

It was the uppers that failed, sorry for any confusion...my lowers are OEM honda replacements FROM honda.

The uppers and lowers are made by the same people (note tas doesn't make them...tas sells them) and from other's exp with that manufacturer they say they don't last very long. And that equates to lower quality.

However, I had already bought my rest. kit before that person shared their personal exp. with that manufacturer.

Now I've seen upper ball joints fail and I've seen lowers fail...when the lowers fail you wreck...when the uppers fail...you pull over to see what that weird clunking is.

I opted to buy OEM quality lower ball joints that I KNEW would not fail on me. I went ahead and went with the lower quality uppers just to test them...again...if they failed I would be all right. And they did fail.

[noobcake]

the uppers failed on you twice?