[Healeys] Mind if I Rant?

Sat Jul 13 15:44:02 MDT 2019

I gladly pay twice the price

‘Cause it ain’t no deal after

I’ve had to replace it thrice!

Bruce Steele

Brea, CA

1960 BN7

From: David Nock [mailto:healeydoc at gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, July 12, 2019 7:03 PM
To: Bruce Steele <healeybruce at roadrunner.com>
Cc: Michael MacLean <rrengineer.mike at att.net>; Richard Collins <gonnagitcha90 at hotmail.com>; healeys at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Mind if I Rant?

This an issue I deal with everyday. The bumper iron you got probably came from England and yes they are a poor quality. I have them from Kilmartin and the fit. They also cost probably 30 percent more. 

You want a real issue the rubber parts that rot away in less than a year without the car ever being out in the sun. I have a better quality one and they are twice the price. Then some people complain at the cost. 

Sent from my iPhone

On Jul 12, 2019, at 2:11 PM, Bruce Steele <healeybruce at roadrunner.com <mailto:healeybruce at roadrunner.com> > wrote:

I’ve been told the same thing.  I’ll give a shout out to Dave Nock here.  My practice is to go through Dave because he’s always steered me to the best, or at least the better, quality parts available.  And I’ve plumbed his inventory of used and NOS many times.

Bruce Steele

Brea, CA

1960 BN7

From: Michael MacLean [mailto:rrengineer.mike at att.net] 
Sent: Friday, July 12, 2019 1:44 PM
To: Bruce Steele <healeybruce at roadrunner.com <mailto:healeybruce at roadrunner.com> >; Richard Collins <gonnagitcha90 at hotmail.com <mailto:gonnagitcha90 at hotmail.com> >
Cc: Michael Salter <michaelsalter at gmail.com <mailto:michaelsalter at gmail.com> >; healeys at autox.team.net <mailto:healeys at autox.team.net> 
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Mind if I Rant?

     As far as repops go, I asked a Moss rep one time why a lot of the reproduction parts and the rubber was so bad and did not fit well.  He told me that he could sell better parts for our cars but very few people will buy them.  If he lists both a premium part and a cheaper version, almost 95% will buy the cheap part. It would be foolish to inventory such slow moving parts, so they sell what the majority will buy.  Everyone wants the parts to be cheap.  S

     So, I guess you get what you pay for.

Mike MacLean

On Friday, July 12, 2019, 8:29:19 AM PDT, Richard Collins <gonnagitcha90 at hotmail.com <mailto:gonnagitcha90 at hotmail.com> > wrote: 

Yup, fully agree with the rant: 

The rear bumper brackets were not even close to fitting the attachment holes on my rear bumper, both purchased at the same time from the vendor. As a result, one each of the bracket bolts hold the bumper to the car with the other hole in the bumper empty. Looks weird but doesn’t impact drivability. The bumper is so thin that any rear ender will destroy it anyway.

Regards, 

Richard C

BN7 440

On Jul 11, 2019, at 23:41, Bruce Steele <healeybruce at roadrunner.com <mailto:healeybruce at roadrunner.com> > wrote:

Amen to that.  The inner forks of front bumper mounting brackets I bought a number of years ago were a bit over an inch shorter than the outer forks, which required sectioning and welding in extensions to bring them level.  In retrospect, I probably should have taken an inch out of the outer forks, as the bumper sits too far proud of the shroud.  I’d totally forgotten about this until I took my aux lamps off and reinstalled the bumper for a show this weekend.  After the show, the bumper is coming off and the lamps are going back on.

Bruce Steele

Brea, CA

1960 BN7

From: Healeys [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Michael Salter
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2019 1:39 PM
To: Michael MacLean <rrengineer.mike at att.net <mailto:rrengineer.mike at att.net> >
Cc: healeys at autox.team.net <mailto:healeys at autox.team.net> 
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Mind if I Rant?

Mike you are pretty well "on the money" there.

I have encountered endless problems with repop parts. I fail to understand why manufacturers have so much difficulty getting things right. 

My suspicion is that we are all partly to blame for accepting the junk and trying to make it work.

I will go to untold lengths to purchase a good used part any time as so doing invariably saves me hours and hours of frustration...

I feel your pain.

M

On Thu, Jul 11, 2019, 4:19 PM Mike MacLean, <rrengineer.mike at att.net <mailto:rrengineer.mike at att.net> > wrote:

I am beginning to understand what a restorer friend of mine once told me.  He said he could restore three BJ8 cars in the time it took to do a 100.  Virtually no parts I have bought from the usual suspects for my BN2 are easy to install.  Nothing fits like it was made for the car.  This morning I made an attempt to bolt up the two bump stop boxes over the rear axle.  None of the holes in the part lined up with the holes in the body above the rear axle.  I will have to auger out at least three of the holes in the bump stop box to get all four bolts in.  This car is fighting me every step of the way.  I guess it's like my restorer friend who has since passed told me when he sold me that rolling frame with a few body panels on it, "Go ahead buy the car, it will give you a reason to live".  I am beginning to understand what he meant.  Half the time I am pulling my hair out and inventing new curse words, but I go out to that garage everyday and try to accomplish something on the car, even if I end up beating my head against the wall, I keep coming back.  Rant over.

Mike MacLean

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