Aragorn wrote:

yeh its odd, i've bought numerous lemforder bits for my Audi and BMW, and they always come in a Lemforder box with all associated fasteners.

Whereas the various lemforder bits i've ordered for the Rangey (track rods and balljoints) have come unboxed with no nuts or anything.

Yes - exactly the same thing i found with the drag link (after going to 3 different branches of ECP trying to get hold of one, Went to the first to collect the 1 shown in stock - they couldn't find it, only to come back from the second with the wrong one of the two bars (the front one from the steering box to the wheel rather than the one that links the two wheels and only discovering when it was too short that it wasn't the right bit!) that the Lemforder ones come without nuts for them as well. Less of a problem with those as you have more chance of reusing the originals or replacing them, But given the britpart ones Do come with them you'd expect the branded parts to at least try to do the same!

Sounds like you were asking for the wrong thing :) The one that connects the swivels is a track rod, the one you got was indeed the drag link, from steering box to swivel.

Reminds me of a conversation I had at a garage recently, after I'd replaced my drag link. Guy asked me if I'd had it tracked since doing that, and I replied no, and he was insistent that it needs tracking after that being changed. I gave up trying to explain that it doesn't make an iota of difference to the tracking.

mace wrote:

Sounds like you were asking for the wrong thing :) The one that connects the swivels is a track rod, the one you got was indeed the drag link, from steering box to swivel.

Reminds me of a conversation I had at a garage recently, after I'd replaced my drag link. Guy asked me if I'd had it tracked since doing that, and I replied no, and he was insistent that it needs tracking after that being changed. I gave up trying to explain that it doesn't make an iota of difference to the tracking.

Sadly not - the sticker on the wrong one and the right one I eventually got actually had the same number on it, they found another one of the same part with a different number on it (the one i was given had a date suggesting it had been in the original branch around 6 months, probably as the previous person returned it at a guess and got it mixed up then) But yes I've mixed the names up there!. What i'd ordered was the correct one off the website, just they had mixed them up somehow (as the one shown on the website was without the extra bits of metal to attach the damper to, as well as being shorter obviously!).