Anyone use Delphi for anything? In particular tie rod ends? Or just stick to oem? Im gonna be replacing alot of fhe suspension components and was just curious. Trying to save a few bucks where i can my car has 250k.

 

I just replaced all the suspension in my Accord with Delphi parts. They are an OE supplier for GM, and many of the boxes I received said "made in Turkey" on them. I started this project with the intention of using mostly ACDelco Gold parts, but the Delphi parts were considerably cheaper.

In the past I have had occasional fitment issues with aftermarket parts (recently motor mounts), but every single Delphi part fit like a glove. Zero complaints about this or build quality generally. The front swaybar links came with a courtesy nut but the rear ones didn't - probably a minor issue for most, and easy enough to add my own, but I appreciate stuff like that. I also appreciate that their upper control arms came with a new castle nut and normal cotter pin* so I didn't have to supply my own.

My one complaint is that the right rear upper control arm box contained a left-side UCA, and when I exchanged it with RockAuto, the replacement also had the same wrong part in the box. I ended up needing to buy one locally to get the job done. I'm guessing this was an issue with RA's supplier rather than Delphi, and everything else among the 15+ different parts I ordered was correct. .

I have a thread over on the Accord forums with a few pics:
https://www.driveaccord.net/threads/...thread.581059/

*I'm generally a fan of Mevotech Supreme & TTX products, but they include the most annoying cotter pins I've ever delt with. They're absurdly thick and difficult to bend into place. I usually toss em and use a normal cotter pin instead.