The point of my post was to say that taking the short term approach of, "I have a piece that you can't get anywhere else so I am going to combine it with another really expensive piece." Does not go over well with me. Perhaps you were fortunate enough to not need shafts, or maybe you were able to wait until GS put theirs out with the rings, I don't know or really care. What I do know is that eventually someone else will source these, and GS may experience some repercussions for their decisions to only sell the inexpensive piece that could give some people their ABS brakes, traction and cruise control back.
Right now, it is more important to them to bundle it and make the bigger buck. I understand that. My whole point is that folks like me will probably remember this marketing decision and the impact it had on us long after those inexpensive rings are available anywhere.
I sourced a set this afternoon.
Using your analogy, you should hope to never lose a set of car keys. Chrysler might decide that you need to buy a whole new vehicle if you want new keys. (Ridiculous, I know, but that is my point.)
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Originally Posted by HalV48
Tone rings are hard to source. Why would anyone want to sell something that is only needed on aftermarket replacement halfshafts. If another Company does not have the resourses to buy or mfg tone rings, why would another company want to supply rings so someone can buy another companies halfshafts and use GSM tone rings.
Simple fact is if you want a ready to bolt in hafshafts, you need to buy the GSM's. If you want to use someone else's halfshafts, you will probably need to use the tone rings off your stock halfshafts, rendering the stock ones useless.
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