Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 22:44:01 -0700
Reply-To: Scott Ohana <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Scott Ohana <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Organization: Cosmic Reminders
Subject: Re: Ordering Parts Online
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why order anything out of the UK unless there is no other source ?
all kinds of problems with ordering like that..
time delays, shipping cost, and how hard it might be to return something
etc.
Not an option all all for me, unless there is no other option.
actually ...lol ..
since it's fridae..
I must say ...the amount of sheerly awful professional carrepair I see
is appaling.
on the order of 75 % of the time, the work was sloppy ..
the job was not really done right ..
and so on.
I havehad numerous vanagon customers get work on other types of cars by
shops..
and even when I talk to the shop beforehand, hoping to tactfully inspire
them to do really good, complete work ..
they still are just plan sloppy, and not very repsonsible at all.
and that ..brings another question to mind ..
on all these lists ...'why' isn't anyone else metioning all the very bad
vanagon work there is ...
if you wonder what I mean .
I mean, for example, an engine conversion job for some $14,000 where
there were*missing* and badly rusted away fuel tank strapes ( syncro )
where the trans at least has to be out to address that repair ..
and not only was the customer not offered the option of having that
repair done..
they were not even informed 'sir..at some point you need to get your
fuel tank straps replaced' ...
( and of course, the customer would say then 'why didn't you tell me
when it was all apart !!! ??'
so ..tell me dear vanagon owners ..
people just do not notice things screwed on crooked or sloppily ..
Honest ...I specialize in re-doing bad work.
The most claring ones that come to mind in the last 10 months..
2004 Toyota Tacoma ...entire cylinder head and timing chainjob had to be
re-done to the tune of almost $ 3,000.
< here's an example of that awful professional work ..
there the exhaust manifold is held on with nuts on studs, the nuts
galled out and did not even reach the exhaust manifold at all, but they
'felt tight' of course. Someone paid $ 2,700 for that kind of work, I
saw the invoice.
also ...97 Ford Escort ..exact same thing ....desperately rusty head
bolts where they screw into the block, floppy new timing belt etc...
also ..
86 Weekender ...a fairly fresh 2.1waterboxer 'rebuild.'
about 20 workmanship mistakes in and on it, worn out cam lobes, etc. ..
so ....please tell me ..
why isn't anyone else noticing or commenting on this.
there really is a crisis here..
I honestly don't know who people can trust to do really precise , exact,
careful work on vanagons or any other car.
The majority of work I see is horribly bad.
so ..why ..is not one else commenting on that ?
They don't notice it? .just like the person doing the sloppy work in the
first place doesn't notice it ???
sincerely ...
I just can not grock this ....tell me. No one else on these lists can
see really bad work , or what ?
if I wrote abook about all the appallingly bad pro car work I've seen in
my 30 plus year career .
it would run for volumes and volumes...like encyclopeias did back when
those existed.
Literally thousands of horribly bad sloppy carrepair jobs.
No one else sees that ?
I see it constantly. I can give very detailed examples..ones that are
just embarrassingly stupidly incompetent or sloppy.
?? ? ? ?
sincerely. like really .
On 6/21/2013 10:11 PM, Jason wrote:
> DO NOT ORDER FROM ROCKAUTO.
>
> They managed to screw up my order 3 times now and it has not even left the
> warehouse. 3 days in a row I get an email that there is a problem with my
> order. I had ordered parts to come air freight out of the UK so I would
> have them in time for our trip next week. Not going to happen, I will have
> to get them elsewhere. The order should have shipped out yesterday, now it
> has a ship date of Wednesday. I just cancelled it and will NEVER deal with
> them again.
>
> Jason
>
> On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 12:15 AM, The Bus Depot <vanagon@busdepot.com>wrote:
>
>>> I spent 27 years in the automobile industry mostly in Parts
>>> and Service and it is quite common for this to happen there.
>>> The challenge is keeping up with their suppliers when they
>>> suddenly change to a different factory that makes a lesser
>>> grade item than what they offered previously.
>>
>> Absolutely true. In this era of global sourcing, it's is possible to find
>> products of multiple origins and quality in identical boxes on the same
>> pallet. Keeping one step ahead of it and separating the good from the bad
>> is literally a daily battle.
>>
>> - Ron Salmon
>> The Bus Depot, Inc.
>> www.busdepot.com
>> (215) 234-VWVW
>>
>> _____________________________________________
>> Toll-Free for Orders by PART # : 1-866-BUS-DEPOT
>>
