I'm running DuraLast, been great so far.

My pop in law had a 2002 Ford F150 4x4 with a 4" lift, one day he was backing out of a parking lot and the driver side of the truck dropped to the ground. Broken ball stud. After we got it old one out we looked it over, there was what appeared to be a cut in the stud, like someone took a hack saw to it......

 

I've been wanting to get the Raybestos balljoints. They're just like $80-$90 a joint. But talk about lasting forever (under certain conditions )

 

This ^

I bought/installed all four el-cheapo ball joints about to years ago. Keep them greased and don't expect them to handle extreme conditions and you'll be fine.

FYI: Price does not always equal quality.

 

I emailed them and they said they do NOT recommend these ball joints for vehicles with altered suspension. For stock vehicles only.

 

Amen to that...especially in todays world where the same product comes off the same assembly line and packaged and sold under ten different brand names with 20 different prices.... and then companies just buy big names like Timken, autolite , peak and the like are selling low quality subcontracted foreign crap while still charging higher prices that once were a result of higher quality... At least theres no false pretenses when I buy off brands online...

I Look for "meets or exceeds OEM manufacturers specifications"...

 

((((I Look for "meets or exceeds OEM manufacturers specifications"...))) That would be every ebay listing you look at.
Stewie how long have you had duralasts?

 

Man that really sucks I had the same brand of ball joints on my list of needed front end parts, glad I read through this thread first

 

Well...that's eBay. And that's why you also do a little research BEFORE purchasing a product (especially from an unknown source).

 

likely because of the lawsuit against them and the headaches its caused...

 

thats NOT ebay...thats as silly as saying guns kill people... The same stuff is available elsewhere online.... I agree you should do research before buying anything but thats a given

And for that one broken balljiont which likely broke due to circumstances not designed for a balljoint to endure, there are likely thousands of happy customers and thousands of dollars saved...
A person could just as easily be a chump for blindly buying the most expensive balljoints he could find and still mess them up doing something stupid....and those chumps are usually the first ones to go looking for someone else to blame thier mistakes on...
Its like the people that order steak so they can complain its not cooked right each time to try to eat free...


I have over 400 purchases on ebay and only two of them were bad ones.... I saved thousands of dollars just by doing my homework before making purchases...