Sam Strano

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So what are you saying is, it doesn't matter what I know or how my stuff works. Its about price and my attitude. Well I sometimes have a bad attitude for exactly this reason: IT DOESN'T SEEM TO MATTER TO MANY OF YOU THAT I *PERSONALLY* BUST MY *** TO MAKE SURE YOU GET WHAT YOU NEED. I don't tend to coddle you like babies, and that, a shocking amount of time hurts people's feelings.

I am FLOORED, flat out shocked and amazed that none of you seem to get that I'm not charging a "high price" for my stuff, stuff I developed and I've proven time and again. The poll here shows that more folks want my springs. My springs cost less than Hotchkis, they are around Eibach and H&R and everyone else. But hey, value doesn't matter when you can get cheap stuff for FREE!!!!!

So yeah, I wonder why I get sick of this.

HoLLo

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Further proving my point.

I know you know your stuff and work hard and play hard on the track to get your results. But that's not enough to make ME personally support your business. I'm sure your springs are a fantastic product, I acknowledge that and never denied it.

Nobody needs their hands held, but when it comes down to products not proprietary to you, I'll go.elsewhere because whether you like to or not, you gotta treat people right to make money.

UnVMySS

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I have strano springs with KYB AGX. I recommended the same setup to my friend Travis yesterday, and he bought a suspension package from Strano yesterday too. Sam recommended the bilsteins for him. I was sitting right there the entire time and Sam was not rude, and explained things in detail to my friend. He did the same thing when I ordered mine over a year ago. He's a stand-up guy and I didn't think he was rude at all; Just to the point. I would go with Strano man. I'm sure BMR is a good company too; in fact I am wanting to buy their lowering a-arms, but a knock-off is a knock-off no matter how you look at it. Nothing at all against BMR either, but I am sure the individual tech's don't test and design their products... But who really knows? Swithing from stock to strano springs didn't really make my ride less comfortable at all. Just stiffer.
When buying something else like a TV for instance... I recently bought an LG 60" 1080p 600HZ TV... It was a lot of money, but it is bad-***. Do you guys think the knock-off cheaper brand is really as good? Or a wolf in sheeps clothing? I opted to not get the cheaper brand, even with similar specs. Tried-and-true goes along way in my book.
OP, Here's a pic of my ride on strano springs and KYB AGX shocks.

sheikss

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Strano for me, matter of fact I use Sam for all my brake and suspension needs. Sam sells you what works not whats "trending". I have his springs matched with koni's on my 00 ss. The car came with the bilstein/eibach spring package originally. I felt a huge decrease in body roll and nose dive during moderate or heavy braking.

Guitar

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Alright, so I'll let you defend this one. Why would one pay the extra for your springs with the current sale going on over BMRs? Aside from the fact they copied your design/rate/whatever or somebody wants to support the "little guys".

Teezy

I just ordered some Strano springs, and some UMI parts, already have Konis on the car.

I entertained going with BMR, i liked the fact i could order them from summit and get them next day with a small handling fee, but i was ignored when i sent a PM to try to get some more info on the products i was looking for, and that for me was a sign that they could care less if they get my business or not. I was already leaning towards Strano, and the whole situation kind of sealed the deal.

FbodyVet

Thanks for the reccomendation unvmyss, and thanks Sam, for the help in choosing what would work best for me. I'd buy strano every time. Some people just need to learn to take advice in all forms from all angles. An outside look is always welcomed advice.

chaman

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Agree %100 with your post. BMR products are top notch, currently the offer of their springs and Konis is hard to beat and the competition KNOWS that.

Want stance? You got it with BMR.







Want a friendly, respectful customer service; BMR again.

Blk98Vert

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Neither, Intrax ftw. But out of the two Strano.

ramair 1

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Go with the stranos and you wont ever regret it .Sam was nothing but straight forward and honest with me.I called to talk with him about what kind of set up i had, but he was busy at that time and said he would get back to me. When he returned my call not only did he set me up with what i wanted , he didnt try to up sell me stuff i really didnt need.
Thanks again sam...when i need something you know who i am calling.

ChrisRZ28

I've never had any problems with Sam. I'll buy from him again. I respect someone who puts in the time, effort and money to develop a set-up (then share it) that works, instead of just copying someone else's hard work. When I started looking for parts years ago, I read to many bad things (on Corner-Carvers and Frrax) about BMR to ever buy their stuff. Maybe their fabrication/copying has gotten better, but I'll never know because I won't buy it.

macknmikey

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installed some strano springs and bilstein hd shocks today




not the best pictures but overall i like the stance and ride much better then the stock crap.

J LT1 TA

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BMR Tech2

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If you were ignored, you may have sent it to one of our other usernames. Myself and Kyle are the only active members on here. We have a total of 5 usernames and that means there are three people you could have sent the PM to and obviously gotten no response because of this. We do not ignore PMs or emails if we receive them, that's not how we go about treating our customers at all. Kyle and I have checked our PMs and neither of us received anything. I just checked Brett's PMs and it looks like you sent it to him. I am responding to your PM now.

Thanks,
Kevin

Drokkers

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i bought some suspension goodies from other websites before i knew about sam strano. I like the fact that he knows his stuff and isnt afraid to tell it like it is. He believes that strongly in his products and from now on, anything i need i will get from him, as long as its on his website. He has the cred. to back up all his statements. This isnt the little leagues boy/girls. His trophies/ reputation were earned not given because he just showed up!!!!

DoggyB22

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Thanks for all the info guys! Didn't mean to stir up anything.... Ill probably end up going with Strano springs & I'm still deciding on the shocks. Probably will come down to cash as usual haha

madball

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This question comes up about once a year, usually right at the time of the sale, and it always stirs something up. For the record I have Stranos and Konis on my car.

Adam1982

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Bmr has been claiming their springs to be the same as sams for a long time now, its been redesigned to be more like stranos. Maybe some of you dont remember the threads between sam and bmr a few years back, and it may not be the same bmr posters around today, but I was completely soured on their whole company by those threads. Ive run sams products on 2 different cars now and will continue to do so in the future.

Guitar

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Links?

JD_AMG

May be hard to come by now, many of them get deleted because BMR gets called out and embarrassed about things like owning umiparts.com, umisucks.com and umisucksdick.com.
Basically the same reason I won't do business with them, they have the elitist ******* attitude, act like they can do no wrong and provide minimal tech advice often suggesting things people don't need.