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Originally Posted by CADplans
Our NAPA only offers China tie rod end, ball joints, etc. Advance Auto sells Made In USA!! 
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I do love Advance, but it's funny that you mention that...
About 3 years ago I rebuilt ALL of the steering on my girlfriend's (now Fiance) '93 Escort... She didn't have much cash so I was deal hunting, but I didn't want to buy junk either. So, Advance had one of their "buy $150 online, get $50 free" sales and hooked up ALL made in USA TRW steering components (at the time I was still working for International Truck, and we did a lot of business with TRW so I had faith)... Ordered them online, went to the store to pick them up, at a significant price premium over the regular Advance stuff, only to discover that they had NO grease zerks... Not a single ball joint nor tie rod end had a zerk to be found. She needed the car back so I hung them on there and so far so good, but I was very disappointed...
I'm glad that the stuff I'm
really interested in has a healthy ground base of supporters (cubs, Mustangs, JBL Hi-Fi/Pro, etc, etc) that can steer me to the good stuff so that kinda crap doesn't happen again.