Weird; How can this be?

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Originally Posted by Falcon500

Hi Daz,

Just a follow up question on this - would you consider the Meyle and Lemforder lower control arms no good also? They are not genuine but touted as being "quality" or "Original" so just interested in your opinion on this.

Cheers!

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Yes both Meyle and Lamforder make good quality parts, although I've not tried them as buying genuine ones locally from the dealer is cheaper (go figure in these times with freight costs)

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Originally Posted by DazzaTD5

Yes both Meyle and Lamforder make good quality parts, although I've not tried them as buying genuine ones locally from the dealer is cheaper (go figure in these times with freight costs)

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Great, thanks for getting back to me mate, much appreciated. Good to know there's decent options out there 👍

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Originally Posted by DazzaTD5

Anything but genuine lower control arms are complete ****.
The bolts that come with the no branded ones are also rubbish.
OEM? did they have a brand on them? a label? or were they in a britpart box?

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I had originals done at 65k, soon after I bought the car; they were knocking badly.
Indy used ‘OEM’ which I took to be LR parts (wrong!). Just replaced them myself after another 50k with genuine LR arms and the parts I took out are unbranded so probably Britpart.

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Originally Posted by jwb

I had originals done at 65k, soon after I bought the car; they were knocking badly.
Indy used ‘OEM’ which I took to be LR parts (wrong!). Just replaced them myself after another 50k with genuine LR arms and the parts I took out are unbranded so probably Britpart.

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OEM is such a bull**** term nowdays.
I find with Land Rover parts you know when you have got a actual OEM part over a genuine is that the OEM part has had the Land Rover logo and part number removed.

Example of this:
Genuine (Defender TDCi) turbos has a Land Rover logo on the inlet casting. OEM has the Land Rover logo linished off.
Genuine D4 airbag strut has a Land Rover logo on the rubber top cap and a sticker with a Land Rover logo and part number. OEM has had the sticker removed but the logo is still on the rubber top.
Genuine D4 viscous fan has a Hella, Behr and Land Rover logo on the plastic fan casing. OEM has the Hella, Behr logo and the Land Rover logo has been dremelled off.
Genuine TCCM has a sticker with a Bosch, Land Rover logo and part number. OEM has the Land Rover logo and part number removed.