GP edition Fenders

[Conkers]

I posted the offer yesterday at (GMT/UTC) 1.30pm ish.... and rebuked the offer at 7.30am this morning. Anyone logging on at night and genuinely interested would have checked this thread last night, I did.

To be frank, the thought of 4-6 sets of body kit in my workshop and the subsequent liability of collecting them from poland/storing them/transporting them to the uk or simply waiting for peeps to come get them... leaves me wide open for a whingefest.

However, anyone who wanted to take part of my offer email me, I won't leave anyone high and dry, but please respect that I am doing this a favour and won't tolerate whinging. :-)


For the openness of this discussion:

Maciej's offer to send the kit and allow me to pay once I recieved them was only if he sends them dhl for 252 euro (to sweden). Which still leaves me sending by bank transfer 252 euro for shipping and 16 euro packaging, I respect that Maciej (Chester) doesn't want to have to shell out potentially thousands of euros on shipping without getting paid for the kits, so some mutual trust has to be established here.
I am now in the process of looking into sending one of the lads down there to collect vs having them collected by dhl and charged to my account.
Pro's and cons exist for both options, which is why I am looking into it.

I don't want any purchasers getting scammed.... and I don't want to see Maciej losing out on this either.

So either:
Option 1. send a lad to poland (cash in hand to pay for the kit/s), he will inspect and pay and bring it/them back. Either to sweden or the UK and we can arrange distribution from there.

Option 2. (which seems most likely at this point in time) I'll send Maciej payment for the kit and packaging (316 euro) via an escrow agent, (if you don't know how escrow works, have a quick read from the link above or search online for escrow), when Maciej has confirmation that the escow agent has received payment from me, he will notify me and I will arrange for dhl to collect the package. When the package arrives 3-5 days later I will inspect the body kit, and if all is a promised I will log onto escrow and confirm receipt of the goods, at which time they release the funds to Maciej. DHL will then bill me for the shipping.

This way there is minimal risk for all involved as it leaves little room for anyone to get scammed.

At the end of the day, it's a bit round the houses, but will get me a body kit for under 600 euros.

If anyone is interested in Option 1. send me an email.

As soon as my body kit is ready for shipping I'll be acting quickly as my car is booked into paint and logbook inspection by the end of march. So I have to say that if you don't contact me within 24 hours, it might be too late to jump on my bandwagon... :-)

Mike.

[Conkers]

ok.. so here's an update.

Maciej (aka Chester) is going to bring the bodykit rom warsaw to Gdynia ferry port next tuesday evening, I am going over on the ferry from sweden to pay him for the bodykit, fuel money and of course to collect the GP widebody kit.
Just waiting fpr confirmation that all 7 parts of the kit is ready and I'll book the ferry.

Some things to think about if you are going to poland.

Passport IS required, id is insufficient.
Must have warning triangle, fire extinguisher and reflective vest in the car, mobile phones only ok with handsfree (duh) and for us scandinavians at this time of the year, studded tyres are forbidden... which means having to put the summer tyres on the car for a two day trip, 99.9% of which will be in sweden with a 1km drive around the ferry terminal in Gdynia....

I'll update the thread when I know more, or when I have the kit.

Mike.

[Conkers]

I have now booked the ferry and my lad is going to collect my kit and possibly one more kit for Jan-petter in norway.
If all goes well we will start fiting the kit next friday march 9th, I'll get back to you all with developments as and when.

As nobody has been in contact re collecting kits for the uk, I'll remove the offer. For the record Chester seems like a totally straight trustworthy man of his word.

Till later....

Mike.

[PukkaSilvia]

Sounds good to me. look forward to hearing how you get on with it

[Conkers]

So now that the bodykit is looking secure and will soon be here.... time to think about the wheels, width, offset and spacers etc..
Pukkasilvia, would you mind sharing specs on your wheels because they are the perfect look for these boxy hatchbacks... they look like minilights.. but I'd like to see the specs and prices if you have them.....

We are hoping to use 16x7 rims at the moment, as we have a shed load of part worn A032's street legal race tyres... 205/50-16 currently considering volvo s40 BBS Crater wheels, as they are plentiful and strong enough for some drifting/accidental kerbing abuse... but the offset at ET43 is pretty shallow and will need something like a 50mm spacer to get the wheel out in these GP arches which look about as wide as yours...
I am thinking about a ET25 offset and maybe a narrower spacer... although we can fine tune it later.... with perhaps a fixed (bolted on and studded)spacer at 30mm and have 8 10mm flat spacers laser cut to use to fine tune the front and rear track width, wondering if maybe we can fine tune the balance of the car by altering track width in a similar way to how you set up a gokart... might be cheaper than buying fully adjustable proflex shocks, and allow us to keep the billies we have on there now!

Thoughts...??

Mike.

[ChEsTeR]

Ok 3 Kits are at my place. For dose who have any daubts here are the picks







I should have at leest 3 sets ready each week.

[James H]

So does that mean i can have a set of you would love a set, or are these already taken, also what was the final cost?

thanks James