Need answer by Monday! deCarbon vs. Delphi shocks...

[RacerJ]

Is there any difference?
I got some take-offs from SLP. They shipped me a front/rear set a while back but it had been missing one of the shocks. Accidentaly got a third front shock sent rather than the second rear. Anyway, I just noticed that the one rear and the new front shock that they sent are deCarbons (say it on the shock), but the other two front shocks say "Delphi". Then I saw that the ones that were deCarbon say something like "A Delphi component" or something like that under them...

So is there any difference? I need to call them and ship one of the shocks back Monday, info. would be greatly appreciated!

[Backfire]

I recently bought a set through SLP and I had the same thing, one set said DeCarbon, the other said Delphi. It shouldn't be a problem. Delphi makes, or at least has their name, on a lot of components in our cars. If I remember correctly, the rears said DeCarbon, but I could have that reversed. I checked the technical data base for part numbers and the rears matched for '01, but the fronts didn't match any of them. The number was 22199128. It's listed in GMPartsDirect under the same name as all the other front shocks or struts. I just assumed they were a "new" part for the '02 models. They worked fine for me. I would just make sure you wind up installing two of the same number on the front and two of the same number on the rear. This would be in case there were any valving changes between the years.

[V6Bob]

I believe DeCarbon is a type of shock and that Delphi is the name of a company. So these are Delphi DeCarbon shocks :D .

"Though gas shocks and struts have been installed on many cars and trucks since the 1970s and are standard equipment on most new vehicles today, the idea of using pressurized gas to prevent foaming or aeration of the hydraulic fluid inside a shock absorber actually dates back to 1953. A French physicist by the name of DeCarbon invented the world’s first pressurized monotube shock absorber."