Hi Dean
Try your local Lucas outlet they are selling recon racks (from power line?)
I fitted one for a customer and haven't had any feed back and they say no
news is good news. Alternately you could buy the bits and build your own. I
have found that I can build a rack for the same price as a recon (excluding
labour costs, but if we added those up for our cars we wouldn't own them)
and at least I know it's done right! I have seen "professionally"rebuilt
racks that have been shot blasted after assembly and are full of shot, I had
a rack that had half of the sleeve bearing for the passenger end, whoever
did that one obviously wanted to do two for the price of one.
Graham.
----- Original Message -----
From: Dean Dashwood <Dean.Dashwood@enron.com>
To: <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 10:44 AM
Subject: Re: TRF Catalog!!
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> Thought I'd add in my £0.02 to this one (just in case there weren't enough
> contributors ;-)).
>
> Every now and then, a thread pops up on this list where someone has had a
> problem with a big supplier, and a load of other people agree. Then a
load more
> people disagree and say how wonderful the supplier is.
>
> Everyone makes mistakes or has problems from time to time, and everyone
has
> their own personal experiences and will act on them. Personally, I have
stopped
> using Rimmer Bros due to having had a number of problems with poor quality
of
> parts, and started using John Kippings instead. But I now have a steering
rack
> on back-order at Kippings, despite being promised that it would be
delivered to
> me by last Thursday. Other people have had good experiences with Rimmer
Bros
> and swear by them. For every supplier out there, there seem to be a
number of
> people who are extremely happy with that supplier, and a number who are
not.
>
> There is one exception to this, though - I have never heard a bad word
mentioned
> about Ted Schumacher. Jeff makes some good points about why he's not the
first
> supplier that people think of, but every comment I've seen on this list
about
> the parts he's supplied and the service he gives has been complimentary.
I've
> never ordered from Ted since the cost of shipping to the UK would probably
be
> prohibitive, and I have no financial interest in TSI, but over the past
few
> months I've noticed several people making positive comments about Ted and
TSI,
> but a lack of negative comments. Ted, when are you going to open a
franchise in
> the UK?
>
> Well, that's enough free advertising for Ted. I'm going to go home and
see if
> my steering rack has arrived, otherwise I may give Rimmer Bros a call. Or
maybe
> I should simply set up shop selling Triumph parts - on second thoughts,
I'm not
> sure I could handle the stories about me when an order doesn't work out
quite
> right.
>
> Dean
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> Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 18:49:51 -0700
> From: "Jeff McNeal" <jmcneal@ohms.com>
> Subject: Re: TRF Catalog!!
>
> In the midst of all this hullabaloo yesterday, I received an impassioned
> e-mail from Ted Schumacher. The same Ted Schumacher who has generated
some
> very nice PR and goodwill for himself recently by offering Spitfire
Squadron
> members 10% off.
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> <Snip>
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Jeff in San Diego
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