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Date:         Tue, 9 May 2000 12:33:49 -0700
Reply-To:     Doktor Tim <doktortim@ROCKISLAND.COM>
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From:         Doktor Tim <doktortim@ROCKISLAND.COM>
Subject:      Re: BusDepot Fuel Tank, have you installed one?
In-Reply-To:  <852568DA.005E0E80.00@CDCLN08.LVS.DUPONT.COM>
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At 01:30 PM 05/09/2000 -0400, you wrote: >You don't think an aftermarket company couldn't reproduce a fuel tank for >less the $500?

Not for $150 unless they use third world semi-skilled labor and very cheap to ship lightweight metal. Compromise cum laude.

It's a fuel tank. These are sold all over the world, not >just the tiny USA market. That's why they are cheap!

No, they're cheap because every compromise was thought of to meet the world demands of fools, who are poor, and will remain so unless they catch a clue and begin to VERIFY before they buy what they are buying, which is what the respondent is trying to do.

Some re-pros are better than >stock--they've seen where they have failed and are designed better.

Interested in any data you have that supports that statement. I know of a very few and rare examples, most of them Berg parts, but then, those are ENHANCED materials and specifications and cost MORE than dealer oem price in some cases.

By all means Jay, respond to the individual who has asked for the opinion of anyone with ACTUAL EXPERIANCE as to the installation of the tanks supplied by BusDepot. For a certainty, SOME aftermarket parts are uninstallable without modifications and some will not work right regardless any attempt to install them and some are just flat not installable and the worst are the ones you do get installed by hook or crook and they fail and take more original parts with them.

I would expect Ron would provide people with references to clients he has shipped these particular tanks to. Any good business person, like Ron, is not at all fearful of word of mouth reports. That's how you tell a good business to deal with. The word of mouth in the vast majority is possative.

I agree that restoration of the genuine original tank is a vastly superior idea to using anything designed to be cheap. But in the instant case, the original was crushed and deformed and presumably not repairable. As well, a junkyard obtained and restored original tank is a way mo- better idea than anything designed to be cheap.

It will FOR SURE fit with NO HASSLES, guaranteed, 'cause it's EXACTLY the same.

What value hath certainty??? Differs between apes of all kinds as your opinion compared to mine doth prove.

T.P. Stephens San Juan Island, WA


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