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CHEAP CAR PARTS : I have a fiat that I am about to sell but the clutch has just gone on it andI don't want to shell out250 quid to get it fixed! Has anyone any experience of getting cheap carparts from a scrap yard and getting a mechanic to fit them? does it work outsignificantly cheaper?--______________________________ ______________________________Laurence McCotter.............. Mail To: Consulting Engineer............... Phone: +44 (0)1506-595322Tality.................... .......... Fax: +44 (0)1506-5959591 Alba Campus, Livingston, Scotland, EH54 7HHIf the clutch has just gone, then it is not worth gettting a old clutch from the scrappy - a new clutch kit shouldn't cost much, 75% of the 250pounds will be labour related. You'll take hours stripping a clutch in a scrappy and it'll probably be about as good as your broken one.Buy a clutch kit (plate, release bearing and cover) and do the job yourself if you have a reasonable selection of tools and a spare day or so. However, if you can't see yourself hauling out the engine/gearbox in the snow (you'll need to encourage a few mates to come round ;-) then pay a garage to do it.
CHEAP CAR PARTS : Archive-Name: gov/us/fed/congress/record/1999/mar/11/1 999CRE415[Congressional Record: March 11, 1999 (Extensions)][Page E415-E417]From the Congressional Record Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov][DOCID:cr11mr99-59] Mr. TOWNS. Mr. Speaker, I would like to bring to my colleagues' attention the attached article, ``Cheap Car Parts Can Cost You a Bundle'', from Consumer Reports which appeared in its February 1999 issue. One January morning last year, Daniel Della Rova was passing another car at about 55 mph on Route 222 near Kutztown, Pa. Suddenly the hood of his 1988 Honda Accord flew up, fractured the windshield, and wrapped itself around the roof. Unable to see ahead, Della Rova gripped the wheel tightly and managed to steer to the side of the road. ``Luckily,'' he says, ``I didn't hit anything.'' But the insurance company declared the car a total loss. According to Charlie Barone, a vehicle damage appraiser in Malverne, Pa., who has examined the car, the cause of the mishap was what collision repairers disparagingly call offshore ``tin''--a cheap imitation hood made by a Taiwan manufacturer. It's one of many, mostly Asian-made imitations of automakers' OEM (original equipment manufacture) parts. Barone, an outspoken critic of imitation parts, says they're cheaper than OEM for a reason: ``They're inferior to original manufacturer parts.'' He adds that the previous owner of Della Rova's Honda, who had damaged the original hood in a minor accident, probably paid $100 less for the imitation hood than the $225 the Honda OEM part would have cost. But the real cost could have been catastrophic. An auto-repair problem similar to Della Rova's may be parked in your driveway right now. If your car was ever in an accident, the repair shop may have installed cheap initation parts, perhaps without your even knowing it. Crash parts are a big business. Each year, U.S. drivers have an estimated 35 million automobile accidents costing some $9 billion in crash parts. The most frequently replaced parts are bumpers and fenders. Not all imitation parts are bad. Various brand-name replacement batteries, filters, spark plugs, and shock absorbers can provide quality along with competitive pricing. Some body-part copies are OK, too, but others are junk. Several consumer groups have supported imitation crash parts, and for good reason: These parts provide competition, forcing automakers to reduce prices. That's good for consumers--but only if quality doesn't suffer. Unfortunately, the quality of imitation crash parts can vary widely. Many collision repairers complain that initation parts generally don't have the same fit and quality as OEM parts. ``Approximately 75 percent of the time, you have to make modifications or tweak the sheet metal to make aftermarket body parts fit,'' says Phillip Bradshaw, owner of Bradshaw Collision Centers in Madison, Tenn. ``And even then, it's often impossible to get the alignment and fit right.'' In an effort to assure the quality of initation body parts, the insurance industry established the nonprofit Certified Automobile Parts Association in 1987. To date, CAPA's certification program covers a small percentage of imitation body parts. Because of the controversy over the price and quality of collision-repair parts, we decided to conduct our own tests on fenders and bumpers to learn about their quality firsthand. All the non-OEM fenders that Consumer Reports tested were CAPA-certified. (CAPA doesn't certify bumpers.) We also investigated the claims and counterclaims about the benefits of aftermarket parts. Our tests and investigation uncovered two key findings: Most auto insurers endorse imitation parts because they can be 20 percent to 65 percent less expensive than OEM. But the companies we surveyed provided no evidence that those savings are being passed on to policyholders. The imitation bumpers and fenders we tested were inferior to OEM parts. The bumpers fit badly and gave poor low-speed crash protection. Most of the fenders also fit worse than OEM fenders, and they rusted more quickly when scratched to bare metal.
CHEAP CAR PARTS : Some insurers acknowledge there's a quality problem. That's why the Interinsurance Exchange of the Automobile Club of Southern California uses only OEM metal body parts. ``We have found significant problems in the quality and specifications of non-OEM sheet metal,'' says spokeswoman Carol Thorp. Raleigh Floyd, an Allstate spokesman, says that his company uses OEM parts--and initation parts ``whose quality has been certified'' by CAPA. But our tests of some CAPA-certified fenders indicate that the CAPA seal of approval is no guarantee of quality comparable with that of an OEM part. (The CAPA seal was affixed to the hood on Della Rova's Honda.) Also, some consumers may not know what kind of parts they're getting. They may simply assume their car will be restored to its precrash condition. Besides fenders and hoods, CAPA certifies other sheet-metal and plastic parts. In the crash parts market, CAPA parts account for 3 percent or less of the units sold. OEM parts account for 72 percent; salvage parts, 10 percent. Non-CAPA imitation parts make up the remaining 15 percent. CAPA loons large in the industry because it's the only organization that sets quality standards for imitation replacement parts. Although its overall market share is small, CAPA is growing. The debate over quality should heat up this summer as a $10.4 billion class-action lawsuit, Snider vs. State Farm, goes to trial in Marion, Ill. The suit accuses State Farm of pressing shops and policyholders to use imitation parts that aren't equal in quality to OEM parts. That's ``a breach of their promise to resote the vehicle to pre-loss condition, says Thomas Thrash, an attorney for the plaintiffs. State Farm firmly denies this. ``We believe these [non OEM] parts are of the same quality as the manufacturer parts,'' says spokesman Dave Hurst. Insurers haven't always looked kindly on non-OEM crash parts. In the early 1980s, State Farm's periodic repair reinspections revealed that many repair shops were charging for OEM parts but installing cheaper imitations and pocketing the difference. ``The shops were making a very long dollar,'' says Stan Rodman, director of the Automotive Body Parts Association, which represents manufacturers and distributors of imitation parts--and which was briefly the predecessor of CAPA. ``They were getting a non-OEM fender for 90 bucks that the insurance company was paying them $400 for.'' By the mid-'80s, however, insurers began recommending imitation parts. Their repair estimates assured policyholders that the parts were as good as OEM parts. The plaintiffs in the State Farm suit allege that the insurer knew better. In June and August 1986, for example, State Farm consultant Franklin Schoonover warned the company's research department that a sampling of imitation crash parts tested earlier that year by the Detroit Testing Laboratory represented a ``major risk for consumer usage when compared to the GM OEM parts.'' The lab found that some of the imitation parts weren't as strong, were more likely to have problems with cracking and peeling paint, and showed weight differences, indicating a wide variation in quality control. In 1987, Ford sued Keystone Automative Industries, the largest distributor of non-OEM body parts in the U.S., for using the phrase ``like kind and quality'' to compare its imitation parts with OEM parts. In 1992, a U.S. District Court ruling found that Keystone's claims were ``false'' and ``made with the deliberate intention of misleading the public.'' In a $1.8 million settlement, Keystone agreed to allow Ford to state in its advertising, ``Crash parts from Keystone do not meet Ford OEM quality.'' ``We should not have made those statements,'' says Charles Hogarty, president and CEO of Keystone, which now uses the term ``functionally equivalent'' to describe its products. Hogarty says the description is ``probably loose enough to mean whatever you want it to mean . . . it's not identical and there may be some minor, we'd say insignificant, differences.''
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