Dennis N Culligan wrote:
>
> A follow up to my note the other day. The rear rubber diff mounts that I
>had
> installed just last month failed after only 800 miles. Upon removing them
>from
> the car, the extent of the failure was worse than first thought. On one, the
> metal 'ears' that the bolts go through were well and truly bent. The other
>one
> was worse. Not only were the 'ears' bent, but the metal had actually broken
> and the rubber was split all the way around. My mechanic contacted the
> distributor (Moss) and told them of the failure. They did offer credit for
>the
> faulty parts. We have gone ahead and installed polyeurathane bushings that we
> got from British Parts North West - called 'em on Tuesday, told 'em what we
> needed, and had the parts IN HAND by around 10:00 AM EST on Wednesday - That's
> the way to do business! The new parts are CONSIDERABLY stronger than the
> others - the metal piece that runs across the middle is easily 2x as thick as
> the ones we got from Moss and covers the whole area inside the bushing itself
>-
> the one from Moss only had a thin lip of metal around the outside (this is
> undoubtedly why it broke). Forewarned is forearmed, and your mileage may
> vary. Later...
>
> Dennis Culligan / '76 TR6 CF57948U / Highland
> ,NY
> DNCULLIG@US.IBM.COM
Thats called "Far-East Profit", and the hell with the customer and his
labor. More and more = especially Moss, is going the "Far-East" route,
you call and they do not want to listen, they also tell you they are not
having any complaints, this list sure says different story.
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