[Mgb-v8] [Mgs] Bad parts / Brake Master Cylinder

[Dodd, Kelvin]

Barrie.

The other problem with lists of this type is that part sourcing is not a
steady state situation. Manufacturers and suppliers are constantly
changing products to resolve fitment and quality issues, so any problems
may have been resolved by the time it is posted to a site.

The best thing to do is report the problem to the supplier, so that it
can be communicated to the manufacturer/vendor, and/or be resourced.

1st rule of thumb in this business:  No one wants to sell bad parts!
The headaches involved with customer disatisfaction are not worth the
price. The British car parts market relies on repeat business, so no
supplier is going to sell junk on purpose.




Kelvin Dodd



> -----Original Message-----
> From: mgb-v8-bounces at autox.team.net
> [mailto:mgb-v8-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Barrie Robinson
> Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 12:22 PM
> To: don; Mgs at autox.team.net; mgb-v8 at autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Mgb-v8] [Mgs] Bad parts / Brake Master Cylinder
>
> Don,
>
> You made me think that perhaps I could put a list up on my
> British Car Cottage Industries web site!  (www.britcot.com).
> However, despite a lot of compliments about its philosophy
> and purpose I have great difficulty in getting "cottagers" to
> list.  It is as if there was some huge fee and the info was
> used to persecute, pillage and
> ply.   So I am wondering if it is worth the effort.  I also wonder
> how many on the list have visited the site - I certainly have
> had very little input from list members.  That includes the
> other marque lists too.
>
>
> At 12:37 PM 1/18/2010, don wrote:
> >Too bad with all the Brit car websites there isn't a Bad
> Parts Warning
> >Site where bad parts experiences could be entered by the unlucky
> >enthusiast.  Some way to help us when purchasing so that we
> don't make
> >the same mistake our brethren have already made.  There's
> bound to be
> >individual rare bad parts issues, but there are other parts that are
> >consistently bad and such a site might show that part from a
> particular
> >supplier has a poor track record.
> >
> >Don Scott
> >Calistoga
> >1962 MGA Mk II
> >1991 Miata BRG
> >1973 MGB GT (selling)
> >1963-65 MGB (seeking)
> >
> >
> >At 09:18 AM 01/18/2010, Craig Straub wrote:
> >>Thought I would update everyone on the brake master
> cylinder situation.
> >>
> >>After 2 weekends of extremely cold weather finally got back
> into the
> >>garage. The PROBLEM was that the brand new brake master
> cylinder had a
> >>warped resevior.  Took off the brand new resevior and put
> on the old
> >>one.  Luckily I had a brake master cylinder rebuild kit
> here  that had
> >>new seals for the resevior.
> >>
> >>Craig
> >>
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