Dampers themselves are excellent KYB make a good product. That being said, if you have a car like mine that requires the shocks to be compressed with a cut string to install them, unless you don't want to and can't have them compressed by hand, don't look for these got that - something solid. enough to tie it in a compressed position. Also, I expect these shocks to last a very long time in my '67 Plymouth now that I've done the hard part for them.