So I just replaced the front lower control arms on my 08 hyundai elantra because the front vertical bushings were bad. I ordered a set of raybestos professional grade control arms on amazon part numbers 507-1890 and 507-1889. The control arms worked out great, they fit good and we're made in Korea with oem hyundai bushings.
So my wife has an 09 elantra, they get great mileage and we both drive a distance to work. I checked the bushings on the front control arms on her car and noticed they were bad, the rubber part of the bushing was completely seperated from the outer sleeve. So I ordered another pair of the same control arms from amazon. Both raybestos professional grade same part numbers. When I got them one was like the others I ordered for my car made in Korea. The other arm was made in Taiwan and had [censored] looking welds and bushings. It is about a 1/16 of an inch off to line up with the brackets in the sub frame. I contacted raybestos chassis which is apparently owned by Affinia according to the website. The guy I talked said that affinia bought the raybestos name and raybestos doesn't actually manufacturer any parts. He said he had no way of telling where or who made these control arms, all he had was the specs they were supposedly made to. He also said it wasn't uncommon for the same raybestos parts with the same part numbers to be made by different manufacturers in different countries.
So now I have a made in Korea control arm that fits great and a made in Taiwan control arm that doesn't fit. Both have identical raybestos part numbers and came in identical packaging. So now I have to decide what to do, send the Taiwan arm back and order one from a different manufacturer, or send them both back. This is extremely frustrating. Anyone else ever run into this with raybestos control arms?
So my wife has an 09 elantra, they get great mileage and we both drive a distance to work. I checked the bushings on the front control arms on her car and noticed they were bad, the rubber part of the bushing was completely seperated from the outer sleeve. So I ordered another pair of the same control arms from amazon. Both raybestos professional grade same part numbers. When I got them one was like the others I ordered for my car made in Korea. The other arm was made in Taiwan and had [censored] looking welds and bushings. It is about a 1/16 of an inch off to line up with the brackets in the sub frame. I contacted raybestos chassis which is apparently owned by Affinia according to the website. The guy I talked said that affinia bought the raybestos name and raybestos doesn't actually manufacturer any parts. He said he had no way of telling where or who made these control arms, all he had was the specs they were supposedly made to. He also said it wasn't uncommon for the same raybestos parts with the same part numbers to be made by different manufacturers in different countries.
So now I have a made in Korea control arm that fits great and a made in Taiwan control arm that doesn't fit. Both have identical raybestos part numbers and came in identical packaging. So now I have to decide what to do, send the Taiwan arm back and order one from a different manufacturer, or send them both back. This is extremely frustrating. Anyone else ever run into this with raybestos control arms?
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