Wife's CR-V needs struts.

[D60]

IMHO.... What is the "best" these days?? It's such an ever-changing manufacturing climate these days. Look at the flavor-of-the-month oil & filter forums...
I viewed another source (repair shop) that has stopped using Monroe "anything" because of their downhill QC, defective parts. For an basic inexpensive source they have been using FCS products with very good results. Many times, OEM's have their suspension parts built and sourced by other companies (KYB etc.)

AT this point... it pretty much comes down to doing research and money. It's all made in China these days....

I too won't use Monroe. If it has to be a budget job, FCS actually doesn't seem that bad. I don't see how because they're so inexpensive, but it seems to work.

 

[50yr Street Mech]

China has cheap labor, all the metals and minerals they need, could care less about the environment. Just watch some documentaries on it. You'll be amazed at to what these poor workers are subjected to. Surprised they don't all glow in the dark yet. And they work for peanuts to boot. The whole country is one big " Superfund Site"....Pollution is out of control. In the air, water, ground, you name it. They just dump their manufacturing by products into the ground, or in rivers, or out smoke stacks. It's really pathetic. Look what happened to Detroit and Pennsylvania. Same thing. Towns are ghost towns now due to pollution.