WaltCasten
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I received my trim pieces from England and have to say I am THOUROUGHLY UNDERWHELMED with the quality of most of them. Here I thought I was going to be a smart guy and purchase these items from England so I wouldn't get the low quality stuff I have been getting from the two major suppliers in the U.S. Well guess what?
I have not contacted them yet as I have quite literally been in shock since they arrived on Wednesday. I don't really know what can be done as the cost to ship this **** back to them is going to be prohibitive.
Here is the situation, hopefully this will help other forum users should they decide to purchase from ** ******:
<ul style="list-style-type: disc">[*]knock-off spinners - top quality pieces [*]side spears and trunk hinges- listed in their catalog as "premium"- good quality useable pieces [*]various badges- top faces are okay but they plated right over all the grind marks around the perimiters where the Chinese ground the flash off- not useable [*]headlamp inner rings- plated right over relatively deep forming marks- not much of these actually show so they <span style="font-style: italic">might</span> be useable. [*]headlamp outer rings- these are a complete embarrassment- one has very deep forming marks all around the perimeter which were plated right over. The other has moderate forming marks but incomplete chromium plating. There's a spot (right on the very top of course) where you can actually see the copper! [/list]
I'm not building a show car but I'm also not building a "rat rod". My question is is there a source for high quality trim pieces for these car or is all that is available anymore is Chinese junk? I say Chinese junk because even for China, some of this stuff is pretty bad.
Sorry for the length of this and the rant for stuff you guys have probably heard a thousand times.
Walt
I have not contacted them yet as I have quite literally been in shock since they arrived on Wednesday. I don't really know what can be done as the cost to ship this **** back to them is going to be prohibitive.
Here is the situation, hopefully this will help other forum users should they decide to purchase from ** ******:
<ul style="list-style-type: disc">[*]knock-off spinners - top quality pieces [*]side spears and trunk hinges- listed in their catalog as "premium"- good quality useable pieces [*]various badges- top faces are okay but they plated right over all the grind marks around the perimiters where the Chinese ground the flash off- not useable [*]headlamp inner rings- plated right over relatively deep forming marks- not much of these actually show so they <span style="font-style: italic">might</span> be useable. [*]headlamp outer rings- these are a complete embarrassment- one has very deep forming marks all around the perimeter which were plated right over. The other has moderate forming marks but incomplete chromium plating. There's a spot (right on the very top of course) where you can actually see the copper! [/list]
I'm not building a show car but I'm also not building a "rat rod". My question is is there a source for high quality trim pieces for these car or is all that is available anymore is Chinese junk? I say Chinese junk because even for China, some of this stuff is pretty bad.
Sorry for the length of this and the rant for stuff you guys have probably heard a thousand times.
Walt