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Originally Posted by Pekingduck
Yes I live in socal and I interact with variety of different aftermarket company. TRD usa hasn't made there own stuff in a while. Just like trd intake are made by aem, trd exhaust is made by borla or is it magnaflow I remember it American base company though. You will be surprise where a lot of things are made especially if you are in southern California.
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Ok, but who is your source? I grew up in and spent most of my life in SoCal and also used to work for Toyota Motor Manufacturing. Also have a friend working for Toyota's Parts Distribution Center. I've heard Eibach made TRD's springs but never saw proof. I owned TRD USA springs for the 7th gen Celica and never saw Eibach branded on it. But that was a long time ago in the early 2000s and ODMs change all the time.
The proof I ask for would be, for instance, MkII MR2 TRD shocks were Bilsteins because we could see "Bilstein" stamped on the shock. Same for JDM MkII MR2 stock shocks but with softer valving. I don't think USDM stock shocks were branded but people could
speculate they were Bilsteins. That would be an assumption because there was no proof like on the TRD or JDM stock shocks.
So do you have proof to show or have seen proof like a document or brand stamping to back it or was it just passed by word of mouth? If word of mouth, who is your source? I'm trying to get to the bottom of this because for 10 years, I've only
heard TRD springs = Eibach with no concrete evidence.
