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P80 P2 Control Arm Quality - Great Video, not for the safety conscious

Help, Advice and DIY Tutorials on Volvo's P80 platform cars -- Volvo's 1990s "bread and butter" cars -- powered by the ubiquitous and durable Volvo inline 5-cylinder engine.

1992 - 1997 850, including 850 R, 850 T-5R, 850 T-5, 850 GLT
1997 - 2000 S70, S70 AWD
1997 - 2000 V70, V70 AWD
1997 - 2000 V70-XC
1997 - 2004 C70

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Re: P80 P2 Control Arm Quality - Great Video, not for the safety conscious

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abscate wrote: 19 Feb 2019, 01:49 There's an ugly contamination scenario of the supply chain in your local parts store that works like this.

Customer buys expensive OEM part from parts store
Installs it
Buys cheap crap off eBay.
Returns cheap part to auto store in OEM box for credit
Store puts cheap one backing stock.
You buy cheap one at OEM price

Ugly
This is the main reason (other than price) why I don't buy OEM at the big auto parts stores anymore. When I bought new Bosch sparkplugs, I had to return one because it was clearly a knockoff. It looked nothing like the other 4 Bosch plugs. It's disgusting how poorly the local parts stores manage their inventory and don't bother checking returns. I stopped buying oil from them after they clearly sold me a bottle of used oil someone returned and then they refused to refund me.
'98 S70 T5M - 323,000mi - awaiting heart transplant :shock:
'98 V70 T5M - 324,000mi - my new project
'99 S70 "AWD" - 220,000+mi - gone :cry:
Knows enough to be dangerous :wink:

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