Austin Shackles wrote:
> On or around Tue, 01 Mar 2005 17:04:16 +0000, Mark <[email protected]>
> enlightened us thusly:
>
>
>>Peter Seddon wrote:
>>
>>>Just had a good one. The rear of the disco was a bit bouncy on the passenger
>>>side, came on all of a sudden. Got two new gas shocks to fit in stead of the
>>>standard ones. Took off rear wheel to find the top of the shock had parted
>>>company with the shaft. No wonder it was bouncy. Shacks were only two years
>>>old!! Got them from Paddock.
>>>
>>>Peter.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>I have found that Paddocks spares are generally quite low quality/ not
>>the right part.
>
>
> though to be fair, Paddock offer several grades of dampers, and I don;t
> expect top quality for the price of the cheap ones, which is something like
> about 10 quid.
>
> same applies to all the cheap pattern parts, really. You can shell out for
> genuine parts and some of the time they're noticeably better. Some of the
> time they're identical...
>
Bought an exhaust off them, it had no chance whatsoever of mating to the
manifold, the landy manifold has a 'rose joint' fitting, and the exhaust
they sent had an interference fir pipe, with a collar. Phonned them, and
they just kept saying "It's the right one", until I took the manifold
off and phoned them with both bits in my hand, and described the
fittings.I realise that some parts are cheaper, but the only way you get
cheap parts,IMHO, is if the quality of manufacture is less, or the
materials used are lower spec, in general. Bought a TMC exhaust, and the
difference was obvious, i.e. it weighed more than twice as much, the
welding was to a much higher standard, and it fitted first time :0) Yes,
it was twice as much cash, but, the job won't need doing again for
another ten/15 years, going on how long the last one was on.
`Mark
