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Old 06-13-2019, 11:08 AM
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What you'll think of Moog?
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Whats close are the manufactures who made them for Acura/Honda.
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Which suspension parts, exactly? Bushings? Tie rods? Shocks? Control arms?

Moog is mostly junk, they used to be good but have gone way down hill in the past few years.
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Which suspension parts, exactly? Bushings? Tie rods? Shocks? Control arms?

Moog is mostly junk, they used to be good but have gone way down hill in the past few years.
I'm not sure how true this is. I ordered moog front lower control arm and sway bar bushings from rock auto and was surprised when I received oem bushings. I've heard of this happening with other manufacturers too. Might be random.
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Which suspension parts, exactly? Bushings? Tie rods? Shocks? Control arms?

Moog is mostly junk, they used to be good but have gone way down hill in the past few years.
I need to replace my 20 year old OEM inner and outer tie rods. Most likely other suspension parts as well like ball joints and such. Moog is junk? There are mixed reviews on them. Good and bad. What about autozone?
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for tie rods the partsW stuff on amazon looks pretty good:

Amazon Amazon

energy suspension bushings have been good for me:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Energy-Susp...0AAOSwaG9XIpMW

you'll also need shock bushings. i use bilstein:

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw...ings%20integra

motor mounts are likely done too. bring back from the dead with dow 428, takes 2 tubes:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/2-Dow-U-428...pe!64076!US!-1

here's a good guide to other parts:

https://honda-tech.com/forums/honda-...civic-3114911/
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Moog... dont hate them, dont love them. Inspect parts before install.
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Default Re: What are close to OEM suspension parts?

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Which suspension parts, exactly? Bushings? Tie rods? Shocks? Control arms?

Moog is mostly junk, they used to be good but have gone way down hill in the past few years.
Just curious as to why you say that. I just replaced all upper/lower ball joints and inner/outer tie rods on my '96 and all parts looked and felt like OEM. Great looking build quality and they feel great driving with, like the car's 20 years younger. Also, inexpensive when bought through rockauto
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Thanks guys. Might go with Moog.
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They aren't cheap, but you can get much, if not all the OEM sets. That's what I did with my '90, but they are starting to disappear. Hardrace on the trailing arms, and some Skunk2. There are some nice inserts for the engine mounts. Well I'm assuming theyr'e nice. You remove the mount, remove the bushing (or just the rubber) and put in the new insert halves from each side. The only engine mount I"ve done, is the front "torque" mount. Found the OEM for that one.

Just depends on your budget, but realize you get what you pay for and the cheaper ones won't last as long as the expensive one.

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I replaced my Integra's inner and outer tie rods with cheap Duralast Autozone parts once a few years ago when I was a broke college kid and the ball joints had play within a few thousand miles.

Moog rebrands a lot of stuff so you never really know what you're going to get, some parts are rebranded parts from the same factory as OEM, others are no name garbage. I prefer not to play that slot machine.

At the end of the day you usually get what you pay for.
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Moog rebrands a lot of stuff so you never really know what you're going to get, some parts are rebranded parts from the same factory as OEM, others are no name garbage. I prefer not to play that slot machine.
Oh, gotcha. So far everything I've gotten from them has looked identical to the original OEM parts I've been replacing. Especially the rear trailing arm bushings. I first got some dirt cheap acdelco trailing arm bushings and as soon as I opened the box I could see the quality difference. I got some Moogs instead and I think they were just reboxed OEM parts.
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moog may look like oem but its not. I got swaybar endlinks installed on the tacoma that are about to go. grease fittings. no good. Bout to order oem ones.




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