HOOD STRUT CHALLENGE!!!

[Deleted User 38384]

8 pages. jesus.

I hear @Terrymo is really giving out a prize this time if we get to 20 pages!

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[Twisted10]

I hear @Terrymo is really giving out a prize this time if we get to 20 pages!

oooooo!

 

[Terrymo]

I hear @Terrymo is really giving out a prize this time if we get to 20 pages!

@Tredsdert is giving out custom air fresheners. I seed it

 

[SlickRicksWilly]

If I could win one of his psyducks, I could make the wife's day by psyducking her Jeep

 

[Deleted User 38384]

@Tredsdert is giving out custom air fresheners. I seed it

You know it's actually funny because I did order 9 and 10 of those AliExpress air fresheners...

Strangely enough, these actually smell pretty damn good. Not chemical at all. Like a really quality cologne.

The packaging says it's like organic and shit, and I don't necessarily believe that, but I mean it probably helps sell sleeves.

 

[Deleted User 38384]

If I could win one of his psyducks, I could make the wife's day by psyducking her Jeep

I'd have to look and see if I have any Psyducks left. Let me check tonight, and if so I'll shoot you a DM and you give me your address and I'll ship you one.

 

[Terrymo]

Can someone point me to where Stabilus struts are made in America? I've seen a couple people present that information, but I can't find it anywhere on their website, and the photo of stabilus struts earlier in this thread said Made In Germany.

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[Deleted User 38384]

Can someone point me to where Stabilus struts are made in America? I've seen a couple people present that information, but I can't find it anywhere on their website, and the photo of stabilus struts earlier in this thread said Made In Germany.

https://www.stabilus.com/company/locations

This is what I was saying about them being a parent company. They clearly have a lot of subsidiaries.

Also while I'm on their site, check out all those job they're hiring for:

https://www.stabilus.com/career/job-finder/jobs-in-america

I wonder if you couldn't contact one of those individual locations and place a small order of struts..

I would do it, but I need to finish my suspension corrections before I jump down that rabbit hole.

 

[Deleted User 38384]

https://www.stabilus.com/company/locations

This is what I was saying about them being a parent company. They clearly have a lot of subsidiaries.

Also while I'm on their site, check out all those job they're hiring for:

https://www.stabilus.com/career/job-finder/jobs-in-america

I wonder if you couldn't contact one of those individual locations and place a small order of struts..

I would do it, but I need to finish my suspension corrections before I jump down that rabbit hole.

How crazy would it be if @Redline Tuning was actually getting their gas springs from Stabilus.

I mean they're getting there struts from a supplier, not from a manufacturer. For all we know you might be buying Stabilus struts from them.



And then the crazy part is, @Redline Tuning wouldn't even know If the struts they're selling are Stabilus because they're not buying from the manufacturer, they are buying from a supplier.

In that sense too, for all we know their "New York State" supplier could be selling them Chinese struts. I guess it's one of those situations where you're just enough removed that you can claim ignorance.



I wonder if it's going to be another 3 years for them to tell us where their supplier is getting their struts from?

 

[Twisted10]

i dont even have hood struts.

 

[shagles]

https://www.stabilus.com/company/locations

This is what I was saying about them being a parent company. They clearly have a lot of subsidiaries.

Also while I'm on their site, check out all those job they're hiring for:

https://www.stabilus.com/career/job-finder/jobs-in-america

I wonder if you couldn't contact one of those individual locations and place a small order of struts..

I would do it, but I need to finish my suspension corrections before I jump down that rabbit hole.

I looked at that. There are also Stabilus offices in Mexico, Brazil, Germany, Spain, Romania, France, Italy, China, Japan, Korea, Australia, New Zealand, and India. Just cause there are manufacturing jobs in the states that are associated with the company doesn't mean the struts are made here. Case in point, the tons of Stabilus struts marked "Made in Germany." Continuing to espouse them as "Made in USA" struts is just incorrect.

 

[Deleted User 38384]

How crazy would it be if @Redline Tuning was actually getting their gas springs from Stabilus.

I mean they're getting there struts from a supplier, not from a manufacturer. For all we know you might be buying Stabilus struts from them.



And then the crazy part is, @Redline Tuning wouldn't even know If the struts they're selling are Stabilus because they're not buying from the manufacturer, they are buying from a supplier.

In that sense too, for all we know their "New York State" supplier could be selling them Chinese struts. I guess it's one of those situations where you're just enough removed that you can claim ignorance.



I wonder if it's going to be another 3 years for them to tell us where their supplier is getting their struts from?

Okay so I just got another genius idea...

The likelihood of @Redline Tuning contacting their supplier and seeing where they actually purchased their struts from is probably pretty low, and probably even lower that they would share that information with us.

People in this thread previously posted pictures of their struts with manufacturer stamps on them. @Redline Tuning already admitted they purchase sleeves from some company here in the USA...

What do you want to bet if I cut the sleeves off of my @Redline Tuning hood struts, I can find a manufacturer stamp on the strut itself!?



It's worth a try! I'm not sure I'm going to have a chance to do tonight but if not I'll definitely do it this weekend. They're trying to get us off early tomorrow so that we can get home before the storm hits so maybe I'll have a chance to do it tomorrow If not today.

Also I'll make sure to film it all in one video so that way no one cries wolf about a edited post.

 

[calemasters]

HOOD STRUT CHALLENGE!!!


On 05/03/2021, I installed the Redline gas springs on my 2021 JLUR. After the install, they would not open the aluminum hood automatically, but once I opened the hood manually, the hood would stay open. Today, 4 1/2 years later, nothing has changed. I feel that the hood support provided by the Redline "struts" is very marginal. The good news is that the hood closes very easily and I still have 10 fingers.

 

[yokramer]

Okay so I just got another genius idea...

The likelihood of @Redline Tuning contacting their supplier and seeing where they actually purchased their struts from is probably pretty low, and probably even lower that they would share that information with us.

People in this thread previously posted pictures of their struts with manufacturer stamps on them. @Redline Tuning already admitted they purchase sleeves from some company here in the USA...

What do you want to bet if I cut the sleeves off of my @Redline Tuning hood struts, I can find a manufacturer stamp on the strut itself!?



It's worth a try! I'm not sure I'm going to have a chance to do tonight but if not I'll definitely do it this weekend. They're trying to get us off early tomorrow so that we can get home before the storm hits so maybe I'll have a chance to do it tomorrow If not today.

Also I'll make sure to film it all in one video so that way no one cries wolf about a edited post.

This is starting to seem unhealthy.

 

[ym0bc1]

Okay so I just got another genius idea...

The likelihood of @Redline Tuning contacting their supplier and seeing where they actually purchased their struts from is probably pretty low, and probably even lower that they would share that information with us.

People in this thread previously posted pictures of their struts with manufacturer stamps on them. @Redline Tuning already admitted they purchase sleeves from some company here in the USA...

What do you want to bet if I cut the sleeves off of my @Redline Tuning hood struts, I can find a manufacturer stamp on the strut itself!?



It's worth a try! I'm not sure I'm going to have a chance to do tonight but if not I'll definitely do it this weekend. They're trying to get us off early tomorrow so that we can get home before the storm hits so maybe I'll have a chance to do it tomorrow If not today.

Also I'll make sure to film it all in one video so that way no one cries wolf about a edited post.

That would be awesome! Wear PPE please : )

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