Why would anyone want to leave the Solid Strut Mounts for Pro Mounts?
09-28-2006, 04:33 PM
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Easy one. Because they feel better in the car than anything thats EVER been available before!!
"99.99% of the time." Actually they "feel" better 100% of the time, but they dont perform as well that .001% of the time they're being used on a race track.
As I tell everyone; I LOVE my solid mounts but I LOVE Pro-Mounts even more 99.99% of the time. Besides, ignorance is bliss (and I mean that in the kindest way possible). Its easy to think solid mounts are better. Just NEVER drive a car with Pro-Mounts and you'll have no trouble maintaining that line of thought forever. Driving on Pro-Mounts however muddies those waters by creating an entirely new standard of comparison. You must also remember there was a time when many thought SSMs were gonna be the petulance of Audidom; disasterous to susupensions, hard, unforgiving, totally unsuitable for a street car, tortuous and savagely brutal little silver marauders that would wound/maim anything they touched. They were wrong. My perception was right then and ya gotta trust my perceptions are no less acutely sensitive and accurate today.
Best adivice to SSM-owners: steer clear of Pro-Mounts and you'll be fine (pun intended). "Tempt not/want not" But ya cant blame me if somehow, somewhere you manage to try them and find yourself like a growing list of SSM owners converting to "Pros." Besides this will just allow people that always wanted SSMs but couldnt afford them a more affordable opportunity to step into them. Then they too should avoid any Pro-Mount equipped cars that friends offer to let them drive. And so on and so on and so...
Heheheh, I never made these for "me" to drive on. I wasnt even looking for an alternative to SSMs. I was just attempting to make a strut mount that lasted longer. Well Mount-Savers came along then 40 or so OEM prototypes later I had an Pro-Mounts w/spherical bearings and Mount-Saver inserts and I made a HUGE mistake. I actually tried them. Not for long... maybe 38 miles and I went home and took them out immediately! They just couldnt be "that" good! A week later same thing again. Two weeks after that another test that lasted a week. Four weeks later and I did the permanent swap. And no one is more surprised than me. These were NOT supposed to be "that" good dammit!
Less money, better feeling, as-good performance (99.99% of the time), even stronger bearings than SSM's and lifetime warranty. What exactly is there "not" to love even more about these!?!
These are gonna be BIG! ;-)
As I tell everyone; I LOVE my solid mounts but I LOVE Pro-Mounts even more 99.99% of the time. Besides, ignorance is bliss (and I mean that in the kindest way possible). Its easy to think solid mounts are better. Just NEVER drive a car with Pro-Mounts and you'll have no trouble maintaining that line of thought forever. Driving on Pro-Mounts however muddies those waters by creating an entirely new standard of comparison. You must also remember there was a time when many thought SSMs were gonna be the petulance of Audidom; disasterous to susupensions, hard, unforgiving, totally unsuitable for a street car, tortuous and savagely brutal little silver marauders that would wound/maim anything they touched. They were wrong. My perception was right then and ya gotta trust my perceptions are no less acutely sensitive and accurate today.
Best adivice to SSM-owners: steer clear of Pro-Mounts and you'll be fine (pun intended). "Tempt not/want not" But ya cant blame me if somehow, somewhere you manage to try them and find yourself like a growing list of SSM owners converting to "Pros." Besides this will just allow people that always wanted SSMs but couldnt afford them a more affordable opportunity to step into them. Then they too should avoid any Pro-Mount equipped cars that friends offer to let them drive. And so on and so on and so...
Heheheh, I never made these for "me" to drive on. I wasnt even looking for an alternative to SSMs. I was just attempting to make a strut mount that lasted longer. Well Mount-Savers came along then 40 or so OEM prototypes later I had an Pro-Mounts w/spherical bearings and Mount-Saver inserts and I made a HUGE mistake. I actually tried them. Not for long... maybe 38 miles and I went home and took them out immediately! They just couldnt be "that" good! A week later same thing again. Two weeks after that another test that lasted a week. Four weeks later and I did the permanent swap. And no one is more surprised than me. These were NOT supposed to be "that" good dammit!
Less money, better feeling, as-good performance (99.99% of the time), even stronger bearings than SSM's and lifetime warranty. What exactly is there "not" to love even more about these!?!
These are gonna be BIG! ;-)
09-29-2006, 07:22 AM
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why do you say that? solids are not harsh at all. Actually its so nice and tight you forget about
having strut mounts, unlike with the stock ones...few months and there they are clunking again.
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09-29-2006, 07:51 AM
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and thats EXACTLY why I say; Just dont drive on Pro-Mounts and your opinion will ALWAYS...
be what it is today. And ya gotta know I love that opinion just as much as I love the feedback for Pro-Mounts.
I'm proud of and love all my children equally. I just spend more time with the newborn right now. But doesnt mean I dont love the older children any less.
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I'm proud of and love all my children equally. I just spend more time with the newborn right now. But doesnt mean I dont love the older children any less.
;-)
09-29-2006, 08:07 AM
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Re: and thats EXACTLY why I say; Just dont drive on Pro-Mounts and your opinion will ALWAYS...
Mance, I gotta give it to you, you have a great business mind. :-) And even better amrketing pitches