Yup, exactly so.
Right after I first bought my Challenger I had to buy a floor jack and stands. I'd just bought my first house, so my budget was a little tight. I went to Sears and bought a floor jack that came in a set with a couple of jack stands. A couple months later I was at Harbor Freight, needed something quick and Sears didn't have it in stock. On my way to the other thing I needed, I saw a floor jack and set of jack stands. Identical to the ones I had bought at Sears, except they were orange, didn't have a Craftsman sticker, and cost half as much. Literally the exact same stuff as the Craftsman ones I had bought except for the name and color of the powder coating. With the pricing the way it was I could have bought a much nicer set of stands and jack at HF instead of the basic homeowner level stuff I had bought at Sears. I stopped having heartburn about buying stuff at HarborFreight after that. At least with HarborFreight there's no illusions about where it comes from, not like buying from an "American" company that's outsourced all their production and laid off the vast majority of their American employees to make their CEO and shareholders rich. F' em.
Same deal with Moog, and all the re-boxed Moog stuff. I've got no problem buying from Proforged, their stuff is made overseas too but the quality of the actual parts is better and it's actually not the same production line as all the re-boxed "American" named stuff that's made by Moog overseas. So yeah, I buy the stuff that actually fits and works, not the stuff that has an old "name" they're now trading on by making garbage.
Lol! All my orders for the K7068's were cancelled - Summit, Amazon, and Jegs. I have a set of the equivalent TRW's on order at Summit, but they've been pushing the delivery date out for months now. :rofl:
