Well due to circumstances I've just told them to send the Britpart items.
My local ( 65 miles away ) MD cannot get the genuine items until Monday and then they send by post so Tuesday at earliest and 2.5 times JC's price.
To clarify my original post ,on Tuesday I ordered two sets from JC over the 'phone whilst looking at their web page . The guy there acually got up from the 'phone and went and confirmed that the parts I was ordering were OE LR when I asked if they were..His parting words were " they're in the post to you today ".
Yesterday I got a call telling me that the inner bushes were out of stock and they expected more in today and would send immediatlly.
This morning I got another call from a woman saying none were in stock and new genuine LR items were " a lot dearer now " .
I went over the previous events and asked what the **** was going on , after another story I demanded to be put onto the guy who took my order. he proceeded to tell me they got an order in during the night ( ?) and now had two other manufacturers items ,one Britpart , but the genuine LR items were expected " sometime soon " but would be nearly twice the price. He assured me that they were to the same exacting standards as the OE ones ( yawn...) and more or less put me into the position of take it or leave it.....offering no apology for the **** up or the fact that their web site still was showing the original price and LR part number.
I think reading between the lines it's apparant what they're up to.
The car has to ber re NCT'd ( MOT) next week so I just couldn't put it off.
To be fair the bushes aren't expensive but my concern is their performance as my wife has to drive down a seriously rough 1.5Mile road to work each day and any crap parts just don't last.
Sorry John Craddock but your knocked off the top of the list now.......
Ho hum...........Thats the disadvantage of living in a beautiful but very remote area .
