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That's what I was looking for as well. Don't need super high performance best ever yadda yadda..just interested in buying American. Apparently ain't possible.
The Yellow/Blue box has the word GERMANY on the outside.
The yellow shock absorber itself states ASSEMBLED IN MEXICO.
Anyone wish to guess how it is cheaper for a company to make the parts in Germany then ship the parts to Mexico to assemble then ship the completed shock back to USA for retail sales?
King Shocks, Fox Shocks, Icon Shocks, all designed, engineered, and made in the USA. They are extremely high quality OEM and custom made shocks, so they are a lot more expensive than you’re run of the mill Sears stuff. Bilsteins, while German, are assembled in the US.
Beat me to it. King are the absolute top , but very expensive. I think Walker Evans are made in the US.
Found another company , Aldan American. More of a custom again, like the others mentioned.
Bilsteins, are about the best mass produced shock I feel.
According to Motorsport Koni is an excellent way to prove the world that the shock absorbers manufactured in Oud-Beijerland of the Netherlands, So. Holland, are of very high quality. They ship to 35 different countries.
How does the socialist Holland with a month of summer vacation and social safety nets everywhere afford to make shocks and sell them and we say we can't make them here. Why isn't Mexico cheaper for Koni to move over?
How does the socialist Holland with a month of summer vacation and social safety nets everywhere afford to make shocks and sell them and we say we can't make them here. Why isn't Mexico cheaper for Koni to move over?
Perhaps because the manufacture of shock absorbers is not labor intensive?
And because the Netherlands is centrally located near the German, French, Italian, Spanish, and British carmakers whose customers are most likely to buy their shocks?
By that logic they should all be made in the US. The argument for going to Mexico and China is cheap labor.
Exactly.
It’s not labor intensive to make shocks and struts. It’s a pretty basic design. The only thing I can see happening besides for cheaper labor is if manufacturing did go to China, the material quality would go down as well, thus shocks and struts won’t last as long.
Although Monroe shocks/struts are made in the U.S. I wouldn’t call them a “quality” or performance branded shock.
KYB by comparison, just holding say a KYB shock in one hand and a Monroe on the other, the KYB feels heavier and just better feeling with a better finish.
The majority of KYB’s are made in Japan and some in the U.S. and quality difference is noticeable.
There's no epidemic of shocks going bad prematurely no matter the brand, is there? I have never replaced a shock.
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