Freelander 1 Why they are allowed to call those OEM? - Driveshaft

Morning All,

in Jan or Feb I got a new driveshaft RH from SKF installed. I had a look into quality etc. and thought it'd be good, but after 7/8 month' the noise is really bad, worse than the original one after 199000 miles. Attached are some pictures and I was wondering why manufacturers are allowed to call those parts OEM and within the specs if they obviously aren't compared to the first picture/GKN? Just from the look of it the IRD side is different and that seems to be the problem and if within the specs it wouldn't make such noise after such a short time.

KR
Matthias

OEM means diddly squat, I think it goes like this, factory/group makes gaskets for an OE application, then they start making driveshafts or buy out another company that does and as they make the OE gaskets they can call the driveshaft OEM, ie Original Equipment Manufacturer!

Decentish parts are Britpart with the letter G after the part number, I think G stands for genuine or maybe genuine quality.

Of course as you had if fitted you will never know how the mechs fitted it or their opinions of the part as they were fitting it

mbrokof said:

Attached are some pictures and I was wondering why manufacturers are allowed to call those parts OEM and within the specs if they obviously aren't?

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Those aren't GKN shafts. GKN use a unique inboard tripod joint, where the shape of the joint has 3 scalloped cutouts, which is the way the joint has to be made for the metal heat treatment to be effective.
Tripot joints with a circular outer diameter are simply machined internally to carry the rollers, which limits heat treatment to a surface treatment only, reducing life massively.

The G added to the part number should stand for Genuine, as in Genuin LR OEM, if the seller is playing by the rules of correct description. A lot of them don't. They imply it's as good as the one LR origionally fitted.

@lynall Thanks I didn't take the mechanic into equation but would have thought, what could they have done other than to take one out and put another one in the same way.
@Nodge68 Thank you. I was wondering what that shape is good for. I thought it might have been fit in on the IRD side to keep it more stable, but that makes sense.
@Hippo It was good for a while, even though in the background it already might have not.

The propshaft was certaintly oem, they certainly sold you a renewed one with bad quality parts.

You can get a GKN one renewed one with quality parts as exchange. All the transmission parts are from GKN on the freelander.

I've got a new one (at least that's what's been said) already, @Alteredtech, no more experiments for me with it. It shows the stamp of GKN, so hope all is good when it's in, thank you.