But you keep coming back to "mom and dad said." I would think that the 94 votes and they technical explanations would trump some the "I've had good luck with 'em."
Mom and dad had good luck with 'em. What's the mean? They didn't break? Hell, my father-in-law's had "good luck" with air shocks, too, in that he's been able to raise the *** end without having to spend the money on what the car really needed: springs.
Hell, one of my customers had "good luck" with replacing spark plugs every 3000 miles on his pickup, but all that did was delay the inevitable of having to rebuild the engine because of the bad rings.