On or around Wed, 13 Oct 2004 20:04:53 +0100, "Larry" <
[email protected]>
enlightened us thusly:
>Bugger and I have just bought a cheapo wiper stalk and all.
>
>Mind you I am going to use relays for the head dip as that ought to preserve
>it better than having the full lighting current going through it, also
>finally going to replace that fusebox with an item that uses blade fuses and
>fuse the circuits a bit more logically than the original wiring.
I bought one (wipers) via Paddocks and had no hassles with it. Mind, I also
bought a main lighting switch and had slight trouble with it as the contacts
were iffy where they were rivetted together. quick go with the soldering
iron fixed that though.
It seems to be popular to whinge like a whingy thing about cheap pattern
parts being defective in some way - granted that they shouldn't be, provided
the supplier is prepared to exchange them at no extra cost (I've never known
Paddocks not to and in all truth rarely had to ask) then you have a simple
choice: chance yer arm with the pattern one, or buy the genuine article at
3 times the cost: And, to be fair to Britpart et al, the light switch I had
slight problems with as above was to all appearances identical to the lucas
one that I'd just taken off cos it had melted. As was the wiper
stalk/switch, too; except that the new one didn't flop all over the place
due to being broken.
I put elcheapo 12-quid-a-time dampers on the back of mother's disco.
They're not as good as, for example, blisteins, or pro-comp, they're
probably not as good as OEM, but they are about a third of the price. One
of them doesn't damp quite as well as the other, presumably down to average
quality manufacturing tolerances. But for the use the vehicle gets, it's no
problem, and they both work better than the leaky ones, and will pass an MOT
to boot.
in short, then:
If you buy a cheap part and it doesn't work, AND the supplier refused to
refund or exchange it, you've a legitimate complaint.
If you buy a cheap part and it only lasts 2 years, then what did you expect?
and lastly... if you buy a genuine part, you've no guarantee that it wasn't
made by the same supplier as the cheap one, and equally naff.
