I am looking to replace my tie rods and ball joints...i've looked into Autopartswarehouse.com and Autozone...still deciding....the ones Autozone are Duralast...how reliable/good are these parts???

balljoint - http://www.autozone.com/autozone/cat...entId=cat30059

tie rods - http://www.autozone.com/autozone/cat...entId=cat30059

 

I heard they're built to last =\

They aren't horrible, but you might just want to go with OEM, since I don't believe there to be too drastic of a price difference.

 

they are good, plus they usually have a warrenty..

 

I bought my axles there and they even offer a lifetime warranty. Haven't had any problems yet.

 

autozone axels are lifetime warranty? i dont remember having that...

can they check if i have lifetime warranty in the database if i go back to the one i bought from?

 

why not just go with ebay cheapies? can't be that far off in quality.

 

For those types of things, I'd go with OEM.

Now I've been running Duralast brake rotors and pads on my GS-R exclusively since I bought it in 2001. No problems whatsoever and the prices are really great. The pads have a lifetime warranty (who knows why) so I haven't paid for brake pads since 2001 The rear rotors for my car only about $17 each brand new, so I just replace my rear rotors every time I replace the rear pads. I don't even bother getting them resurfaced.

 

FTMFW

but i heard that recently they stopped offering the warranty on the brake pads... probably not though, that would be the suck

edit: do they make aftermarket tie rod ends, etc.? because i've been contemplating on replacing them as well

 

They last pretty long and with warranty.

 

i replaced my ball joints with the dura last ones from autozone about six months ago and they seem to be doing just fine.

 

I've used a lot of Auto Zone parts, and have only had problems with distributors, but since a lot of the expensive stuff has lifetime warranty it's not that big of a deal. Did ball join ont my little brothers EF only problem was that it uses a different size castle nut, but other than that no problem with it.

 

I use their rotors (due to cheap prices and 2 year warranty) and have had no problems whatsoever but idk about any of their other parts. For those parts i would use oem. Just my .02

 

I work at Auto Zone the Duralast parts are not bad at all for the price you pay. I put them on my car. Do stay away from the Value craft parts though. Or as AutoZoners call them "Value Crap"

 

i USED to work at autozone... really decent price but quality parts... i have LIFETIME warranty on half the parts on my car.. axles,rear caliper,radiator etc.....

 

advance auto has lifetime warranty on those wear-ever brakes, the gold and silver ones anyway. as for ball joints, i guess it wouldn't really matter what brand you went with. they're probably pretty close to being the same quality. and if they have a limited lifetime warranty on them, if they should fail, replacement would be free.

 

Their spark plug wires suck *****. I installed a new set and the necks ripped from the wires the very first time I removed them on 3 of the 4.

 

most of it is good stuff. just use proper judgement

 

Just searching trough net for somebody with similar problem and you are be on google place 3, listen man... buy duralast lower arm balljoin and is worn after 3 months, duralast is peace of s*it, and chipest BJ from Turkey is last longer , almost 1 year .
My word, just go with OEM, price is best and you know what you got.