I Can Relate To That, I Bought A Set Of 4 Rancho RS5000 Shocks In January 2004 From Advance Auto, Within A Couple Months Of Installation I Got The Rancho Shock "Thud Noise". The Handling Seem To Progressively Get Worse And The Front End Started Making All Kinds Of Racket. After Searching For Any And All Known & Unknown Problems With The Front End And Not Finding Anything Out, The Handling Got So Bad I Didnt Even Like Driving My Crew Anymore.SomeCrew wrote:I'd like to thank Advanced Auto Parts for selling me a 75 dollar axle that lasted 1 whole day! Even the GM axle lasted longer than that!
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I Finally Broke Down And Ordered Some Bilstein Shocks For The Front. When I Took The Rancho Shocks Off The Front I Could Completely Compress Them, Throw Them On The Ground And They Wouldn't Even Attempt To Spring Back Out. Both Fronts Were The Same Way.
I Have Only Had The Truck Off Road Maybe 3-4 Times In The Past 2 Years The Rest Is Street Driven.
So Either My Rancho's Were Garbage, Or ADVANCE AUTO Just Sells Returned / Recycled / Used Parts As New You Got Me.
Anyway The Bilsteins Are AWESOME, There Are No Noises At All Comming From The Front Of My Truck And It Handles Great.
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Sorry About The Long Rant But That's My Story And I'm Sticking To It.
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