Bill....I've enjoyed reading your posts in recent months, but have to take
issue with this one. Moss products are not "CRAP". Some of their products
are not up to the standard that we would like them to be, but - by and
large - Moss offers many thousands of perfectly adequate products without
which there would be far fewer LBCs still on the road.
There have been complaints about the quality of their chrome and their
rubber products. As a busy restoration shop owner, and as an ex-Moss
employee, I have been - and continue to be - very vocal in my criticism to
them of parts that I deem unsatisfactory. However, as I said above, by and
large, what they sell is perfectly adequate for the job. Without Moss's
having spent the many hundreds of thousands of dollars they have invested in
tooling, etc., to reproduce obsolete parts, there would be a lot of
incomplete cars around.
So, please don't make broad statements such as "Moss products are CRAP"
unless you can prove that every part you have ever bought from them did not
fit, did not work, has failed prematurely in service, or has been woefully
inadequate in one way or another.
And, no, I am not still on Moss's payroll. I just know that I would not have
been able to restore as many show-winning cars, nor make so many people
happy with a well-running, good-looking car, had Moss Motors not been in
business.
Lawrie
British Sportscar Center
-----Original Message-----
From: WSpohn4 <WSpohn4@aol.com>
To: mgs@autox.team.net <mgs@autox.team.net>
Date: Thursday, May 07, 1998 12:19 PM
Subject: Repro Parts
><<So, competition drives Moss to keep selling the inferior product. And we,
>being aware of that, should indeed follow your suggestion and try to
>re-chrome original parts as often as possible if we really want "Show"
>quality.
>
>Lawrie
>British Sportscar Center>>
>
>It's not show quality we are looking for. Your comments about price
>notwithstanding, the Moss product is CRAP. You are no doubt correct as to
why
>they produce this stuff, but why can't they also offer a decent product for
>those willing to pay for it?
>A few years ago my MGA Coupe bumper was hit badly enough that it needed
>replacement and all that was available was a Moss item. I finally took a
new
>Moss bumper that I borrowed from a local shop, that had never been mounted
but
>had been on the shelf for 3 or 4 years, to the insurance company to show
them
>the rust coming through the pitifully thin chrome, before I could convince
>them to pay for a rechrome job on my brand new Moss bumper before it was
>mounted on the car.
>
>You could just about take a frame and driveline, and add all new Moss (and
>other parts sellers' items) to make a new car, but it would be nowhere near
>what an original car would be in terms of detailed appearance. I know one
guy
>with an XK 120 that will not put any reproduction parts on it, and spends,
>needless to say, a lot of time searching for NOS stuff.
>
>
>Bill S.
>
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