DANGEROUS PRODUCT = Moog Ball Joints
The reason I went with XRF is the fact that they are not retail box store parts. You cant buy them normally over the counter. I found 1 supplier in Michigan that would. The reason they are not normally heard of is they are typically service garage jobber parts. I dont think a service garage wants to put joints in a car, and have them fail in a year. It looks bad.
I read the reviews on these. One was from a guy who works in the canadian oil fields. Has an F350. The OEM joints were done for at about 60K. He had his service garage install XRF brand joints. After that he logged 200K on the odometer and no issues. I doubt any one of us are going to be driving like this with any of these cars.
The other thing is specific quality standards they expect in the manufacturing. What i have read was that they randomly pull parts off the assembly line and take them apart to inspect for certain tolerances. The thing is, the chinese and Taiwanese will make you whatever you want to the specifications and materials you want. MOOG has unfortunately cut corners and lowered their standards within the last 10 years or so. Until i see otherwise, i will never buy another MOOG suspension product.
As far as XRF goes, i have no dog in this hunt. I am going by reviews of the product. The F350 pounding the **** out of these for 200K miles in the Alberta oil sands and them still being nice and tight is enough of a review for me. I like to do jobs like that only 1 time.