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Spares manufacturers+shops: Who are the Good, the Bad and the Ugly?

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corrosiverob:

--- Quote from: Disco Matt on March 01, 2008, 19:15:30 ---Paddock are brilliant as are Famous Four - Paddock ease ahead in that race due to having a fully functional e-commerce site rather than having to phone orders in. As for parts, Delphi/de Carbon (shocks made by Delphi) seem fine, Bearmach are good although I only have a steering guard from them so have limited experience of their products!

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Agree with paddocks but be careful VAT to be added to stock prices!!

delivery approx 3-4 days

rob

Range Rover Blues:
Paddocks are cheap, even for branded stuff, so never buy hong-kong-fuey wheel bearings but alwys get Timken.

I occasionally use Rimmer Bros, not cheap at all but if they say it's in the post it's in the post, they never let me down.

After a while you get to know which parts you can accept almost-fit-part on and which you can't, for example I always fit EBC pads and Delphi disks from Paddocks because for what they charge it's rude not to ;)

But then I fitted a Delphi cluth kit to the V8 and it hasn't lasted too long :shock:, I used britpart cylinders on it and they are fine, so you can't sweepingly say that all pattern parts are rubbish, just the crappy ones :lol:

Jake:
Scorpion's stuff...Been there, done that, wouldn't go back now  :roll:
Is it true that Britpart own paddocks?
 :|

CNorman:
OK who has actually had a bad experiance of Scorpion because i have never known anything bad from them and a lot of good.

Jake:

--- Quote from: CNorman on March 02, 2008, 19:51:59 ---OK who has actually had a bad experiance of Scorpion because i have never known anything bad from them and a lot of good.
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Me
I had their 2" lift with Decarbons, winch bumper and rock sliders
The springs were horrible, the car wollowed really badly on round abouts and was scary at speed on motorways (i have since tried a Old Man Emu ste up and was amazed at how normal it feft with a 2" lift)
The dampers got too hot whilst laning and became useless
The rock sliders were fine (apart from being a complete rip of off the Mantec versions)
The bumper was fine too (untill i saw how easily they come apart when we destroyed one for fun)

A mate of mine had the Evolution kit on his Rangie and it keeped killing dampers
He replaced the Decarbons with Procomps and he went through 2 sets of those too
He then realised that it was to with the front shock towers which are designed to lower te shock down 2"
This is great if you are only going to take the vehicle on a twist off ramp but usless when the front wheel wants to travel upwards

Someone on here (i cant remember who) had a Scorpion rear radius arm break whilst travelling at speed on  motorway/A road
Fortunatly they survived the accident

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