What brand of street shocks do you have?

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I half suspect you're right about the rebadged, but there's no way to know without watching the delivery trucks.<G> And unless there's a waiting line in the paint booth, I'd expect rebadged to be "in stock" all the time without the problems that TRD usually has here. Could be that Tokico makes the TRD, but does something to a different spec. (Like Purina makes many supermarket brands of dog food here, some the same, some not.)

The Konis are tempting, but I'm from the "KISS" school. If there's no adjustable parts and valves in a shock, there's less parts to fail in it. I don't really want to start pulling the shocks and rotating them, as Koni shows for the yellows in this application.

What I've heard about the blues is that they're not very durable, or not very distinguished (ride). Hard to say what that means because you never know who it is coming from. But reaching Tokico on the phone or by email was very difficult, and once reached, they said the guy who could answer my question was in Japan on vacation, no one in the US could read the Japanese data base...and no one ever called back.

I'm old fashioned that way, if no one can work the phones or the mail, to me it says "bad management" and that says bad product.

Heck, I can call GE or 3M and in one phone call get everything from refrigerator spare parts to nuclear turbines (GE) or any division from industrial adhesives to NASA-spec electrical connectors (3M). These guys at Tokico sell what, hydraulic cylinders? And don't have an English data base at a US distributor? Nah. Two guys in a basement can do great stuff--but I want to deal with a well-run organization that doesn't depend on two guys not getting hit by the same truck.

I actually worked for a small company once where the two company owners would not take the same elevator in their office building. Just in case the elevator crashed, so at least would be left to run the company. (Aside from that they seemed perfectyl normal. Treated the help well, too.<G&gt