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Re: SVX Rear Strut - Dated 9/12/08 - 2008 looks like an SVX Part Stock-Up Year
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Problem is, the typical buyer of the SVX is not the typical Subaru person. They didn't sell the SVX at WalMart. Subaru's current line up I'm not so sure about. A friend just picked up his new Impreza work car. Called me to ***** about cheap plastic, noise, poor ride and lack of quality components 20 minutes into his first drive. FTR his last two vehicles were an Audi A-3 and a Land Rover Disco. Not exactly the toughest competition.
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The plastic is what gives them all that "new car smell" Keith |
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Before the federal government got involved the "good replacement parts for several decades but when the gestapo took it over, the company's said 7 years... OK Keith |
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(Yes, I know, 9/11 was a huge government conspiracy, ) Lee
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Re: SVX Rear Strut - Dated 9/12/08 - 2008 looks like an SVX Part Stock-Up Year
Possibly for the same reason as Big Red. A change in there inventory catalog. It makes just as much sense as supporting a dead car with less than 8k worldwide still on the road. This is the time that most clubs would be looking into buying the tooling to make the parts. To bad there isn't an SVX club working to do this... or even an SVX club.
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Hey, I concede. Have a nice pipe dream.
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Re: SVX Rear Strut - Dated 9/12/08 - 2008 looks like an SVX Part Stock-Up Year
Makes no sense at all considering product liability. Get real.
Lee
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Re: SVX Rear Strut - Dated 9/12/08 - 2008 looks like an SVX Part Stock-Up Year
Brilliant. Lee says we can now sue over packed dates. The Brits will be even more willing to ship over stuff without the fear of friv. lawsuits. Where is that damn lawyer's number. I got some free money waiting for me.
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Re: SVX Rear Strut - Dated 9/12/08 - 2008 looks like an SVX Part Stock-Up Year
All they would say is P date means something other than production date. Nowhere on the package is production date stated. Anything here is simply a guess, or a rational observation. I'm with the ones who say that it makes no sense to set up to make a limited number of parts. It just doesn't make sense from a manufacturing point of view.
Would be nice if they made some new parts for us. I doubt that will ever happen unless the parts cross over to a current model, and less of that will happen with the new generation boxer engine they are designing.
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Remember good old Ford and the Pinto. Nearly any gas tank at that time would rupture IF hit in the rear at 50 MPH. That was not the case really litigated. The case was based on the fact that Ford KNEW this and still produced the car. It did not matter that all other car gas tanks would do pretty much do the same. In summary the Pinto was as safe as over 80 percent of the cars on the road at the time, but Ford had placed themselves in a litagatory situation by running tests and making a record of this rupture being possible. Subaru is making a record of a new production or at least implied new production date. If there was a catastrophic failure and it was determined that these were old possibly faulty items and only repackaged--they have mislead the customer and open the way for some lawyers to get rich. Just my opinion. Lee
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Re: SVX Rear Strut - Dated 9/12/08 - 2008 looks like an SVX Part Stock-Up Year
Is there any way we could maybe ask someone at Subaru and get this figured out? Speculation is going to get us nowhere.
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Re: SVX Rear Strut - Dated 9/12/08 - 2008 looks like an SVX Part Stock-Up Year
Having worked for Subaru, I can tell you that the P date is closer to a pack date than a pick date, but it is neither really. It is the date that the item was received into inventory stateside (thus being close to a "pack date", but not the original one at time of manufacture. In the case of the US warehouses, this would be the date they received the parts into inventory from Fuji Heavy and labeled the part individually for sale to dealerships.
Unfortunately, this can mean these are truly NOS parts that hit a particular US warehouse in 2008, or it could mean that there was enough demand for a small run of them and are new from 2008. Not 100% sure about the SVX struts, but in my days @ Subaru (up until about 2006) struts had serial numbers on them. If this is the case with the SVX struts, comparing say a very late model production 97's serial numbers with the ones from a new set would tell you if they were manufactured after the 'normal' production run would have ended. IE: if the late model 97 struts say SN 100200300 and the new struts say 100400300, you know the struts are at least from after the 97 models. If the SN is lower, it is definitely old stock that had been hanging around in Japan somewhere. |
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