[Huskymaniac]

There is strong evidence that there was a new manufacturing run of struts in 2007. People have argued the logic in this but they don't run car companies who depend on customer loyalty. I think there is a good enough reason to believe it to justify buying them. Of those who experienced premature failures, we have no way of knowing how many of them got old ones and how many got the potentially newer ones. So, yes, there is risk involved. But my car is a 96 with 100K on it so it is one of the younger SVXs out there with below average mileage and its front struts are going. I find it hard to believe used is lower risk than new and especially if new was made in 2007. You would have to put in three sets of OEM struts before you spend more than you would spend on the custom built ones. Again, it comes down to risk analysis. If half of the OEM struts are bad, you are still, statistically, better off buying OEM versus custom.