They really don't have the history to prove it, they failed on my trucks, they've failed on other's as well. I'm not saying other brands don't fail, but OME(apparently made by Monroe) fail as well.

 

Installed Bilsteins about four months ago. On and off road driving is wonderful now. If you break one, life time warranty.

 

I just installed OME's the first of this month and quite happy with them.

 

And how exactly did they fail and be specific if you want to show them as an inferior shock?

 

The OME are still engineered by OME and made to the same OME specs and standards they are just built in a Monroe facility in SA because its cheaper for OME to contract the work to Monroe and only employ a handful of engineers to make sure the OME specs and standards are still being used for the product. Think about it it all about saving a few bucks to pay Monroe for the use of the equipment and a few engineers is way cheaper than having dozens of employees and all the overhead expenses to run their on facility.

 

Three of the four front bushings blew within 2-3 years of non-harsh offroading. Is that specific?

 

maybe you got a bum pair? besides, they sell em at rovers north and you link to that company in a lot of posts, what did they say to you when you had these issues?

 

They were surprised to hear it admittedly, and gave me a great deal on the TF kit.

 

That's unfortunate that happened but when they produce over 60,000 shocks a day yes a day out of the Monroe facility there are going to be flaws and some products will suffer early failure. Some of the problem is when products are so mass produced not everything get inspected properly and some not so good parts make it out to the customer. And that is the problem with replacing people with machine the machine doesn't touch it, feel it, and observe it like a human would do.

 

Yeah I can see that, and no worries. In my S60R the Monroe computer controlled struts blow before 80k usually. I like my Terrafirmas now, but if Bilstein made a solid +2" I'd probably be using that.