SneakyAnarchistVanCamper
Reading till my eyesbleed
They will send you a rack that hasn't been centered correctly - basically broken, total junk. It will cause your ABS, ESP and TCS lights to go on and the systems to not function. The shop will likely slap it in not knowing any better (As there is no way to know it was not centered, without special test equipment I would wager). Costing you multiple trips to the shop to figure out what the hell is the problem. Then factory-direct-parts will tell you "Oh just send it back we will get you a new one or a refund". Yeah, right, like I'm going to ride a bicycle for my delivery job in the meanwhile? And all the money I paid fixing the broken part they sent me? Not their problem. And who knows if they will send me a properly rebuilt one if I were to send it back. This is a scam and I hope these guys get sued. It's either them or cardone who is responsible for this. I also should have taken it to a sprinter shop in the first place instead of a generic alignment shop.
But the good news is that it is fixable, although there is no spec or procedure, mccoy sprinter center is going to do a custom re-centering. So at this point I would have saved money buying it brand new from MB.
Also beware of buyautoparts on ebay, total scam selling knock offs claiming them to be genuine. Then there's parts-for-imports
on ebay, and if you order a fuel rail from them, they won't even have it in stock like the listing says - that's why these types of companies are so unreliable, they don't even have the item they're selling - yet, at least. They order it from bosch supposedly, who was out of stock at the time, costing me a week of downtime. So be careful with these ebay sellers.. And you can buy a cardone steering rack from carquest for a little more.
But the good news is that it is fixable, although there is no spec or procedure, mccoy sprinter center is going to do a custom re-centering. So at this point I would have saved money buying it brand new from MB.
Also beware of buyautoparts on ebay, total scam selling knock offs claiming them to be genuine. Then there's parts-for-imports
on ebay, and if you order a fuel rail from them, they won't even have it in stock like the listing says - that's why these types of companies are so unreliable, they don't even have the item they're selling - yet, at least. They order it from bosch supposedly, who was out of stock at the time, costing me a week of downtime. So be careful with these ebay sellers.. And you can buy a cardone steering rack from carquest for a little more.
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