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Aug 14th, 2020, 09:55 | #1 |
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Sachs top mount failure in under 1000 miles.
If you'd bought Sachs top mounts less than 1k and 4 months ago, and they had both already failed, would you suspect potentially faulty parts, or would you accept that as a reasonable lifespan of the parts, as I've contacted the seller and he seems to think it's fine.
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Aug 14th, 2020, 10:58 | #2 |
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Not acceptable to me as a recognised decent quality brand, are you sure they were genuine Sachs?
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Aug 14th, 2020, 11:05 | #3 |
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They were all correctly packaged it what appeared to be proper branded packaging.
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Aug 14th, 2020, 11:09 | #4 |
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Ebay is full of fake parts. Contact Sachs and raise a complaint with them and see what they have to say about it
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Aug 14th, 2020, 11:46 | #6 |
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They're definitely knackered, I'll speak to Sachs directly and see what they say, thanks
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Those parts and the response from the seller are shocking. I fitted genuine Volvo mounts to my V40 - about £30 each IIRC - and still as good as new 60,000mls later. I would expect the same from a brand like Sachs.
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Aug 23rd, 2020, 09:08 | #8 |
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Clarkey: I did the same but within a short time they got clunkey. I do live down a 5km gravel mountain track.
My answer was to revert to Phase one mountings, trouble was, they dont fit pahse 2 struts. No prob. got 2 x Ph one struts, replaced the iffy mounts and 4 years on, solid. Also had to change the anti roll bar drop links too.
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I've got some SKF ones if you're interested? Really good make, after all they did invent volvo.
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