KYB strut question

[Garrett Powered]

I ordered KYB GR2 struts for my car and paid $211.75 for all 4 and the rears are GR2s but the front cartridges say Excel G on the box when I specifically ordered GR2s all the way around. Now is the Excel G a cheaper cartridge? I'm thinking they are trying to pull a fast one on me.

 

quoted from les schwab website:" Note: GR-2 may be called Excel-G on some applications."

 

Is this true?

 

[mra32]

i think thats what my front ones said. I ordered from tire rack btw. I know i posted up here about it and was told they are the same. I dunno. They work fine for me

[Crazy K]

allegedly they have renamesdthe units, and they are considered to be the same thing.

[Garrett Powered]

alright good, just wanted to make sure, I didn't want to have to return them. I got some KYBs for the car in '06 that the back ones are leaking and rattling already and they might have been the cheap ones they make or something. I will pull them off and see, but I don't think they were GR2s but I was hoping they renamed them. I haul a lot of stuff in the trunk for work so that might have been what done them in so soon. they worked great at first just like my new rack before it shit the bed so hopefully I get more than 2-3 years of use from them.

[IRONDOG442]

KYB has disconimuted the GR-2 line they are now called Excel G

[White93z34]

From what I understand KYB calls the GR2s Excel Gs everywhere else in the world, and they are just standardizing now.

 

Same strut, different look.

[BXX]

From what I understand KYB calls the GR2s Excel Gs everywhere else in the world, and they are just standardizing now.

 

Same strut, different look.

 

You are 100% correct!!

 

you win a cookie good sir!!!

 

And im not being sarcastic, he is 100% correct..