laverda 3c 1000 1200 new rear shocks for 50 GBP

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280605490427 on ebay

http://cgi.ebay.it/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280605490427&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

real bargain or sham?

anybody knows this vendor and his products?
has someone out there used these on a triple?
riding experience?

thanks
eric
 
350mm is a tad short for a triple. Sounds more like 750 items.

You pays your money and you takes your choice...
 
thanks grant
a tad short  :o
no references from the community  :'(
with these premises it will be neither my choice nor my money...
cheers
eric
 
I think it's a wise decision Eric, you shouldn't be putting ?50 shocks on a 130mph triple unless of course you also wear a ?50 crash helmet and fit ?50 a pair tyres!
With shocks you invariably get what you pay for. A couple of years ago I bought some [new] cheap Hagon shocks for a project I was building, the thing handled so badly I ended up at Maxton's door asking for help -the first of many subsequent visits...

Maxton mounted the Hagon shocks on their shock dyno-I didn't know such a thing existed until I'd visited Maxton
The Hago shock 'flatlined' on the dyno meaning the shocks had zero damping. Maxton said they had never actually seen that happen before!

Since then I've never bought cheap shocks.

 
Mate brought some "new" shocks off e-bay for his Blade (half list), they looked good but after a few hundred miles were very tired. After some investigation they came out China.

I too have bought new shocks for the GP looked good but would not fit. They came out of India.

Andy
 
Well, YSS is from some Asian country (Thailand?) and I have been well pleased with the suspension unit on the old Boxer.  I wouldn't be too quick to dismiss suspension units simply because they originate from someplace across the Pacific.  The YSS unit was very reasonable, and its going on two years of service without any problem whatsoever.  Very good value, I'd say.
 
One can have good products from far east asia, but I sense here that it's some sort of crap copy item, made for profit to look like the real thing. Will never be, and won't function either. Sad.

Cheers,
Jacques.
 
There are some excellent asian products around, indeed if BMW, Merc and Porsche owners knew how much of their precious motor had components from this part of the world they would choke on their bratwurst.

The problem is ascertaining what product is crap and what is good. Figuratively speaking you can count European shock manufacturers on one hand whilest there are literally thousands turning them out in Asia and Turkey amongst others. I know that car components are particularly vulnerable and have heard of many problems where no longer produced parts have been copied. Whilst looking good on the outside the failure rates are high, talk to Jag and Lotus Carlton owners.

With literally thousands of back street sweat shops turning out individual parts there is a high risk of quality control going down the tube. In my trade I have had many arguments with companies perporting to have OEM quality and when yo look deeper it is only their own in house testing of the product that says the product conforms. I know of two or three chain suppliers to the end user market that brand the chain with their logo yet have it produced purely on price by several companies.

Buyer beware.

Andy

PS The little ?8 camera from Hong Kong works treat even if the disc doesnt.
 
Son #2 (David) noticed the other day that the front tyres on his 5 series BMW car had got very bald around the inner edges,with 85% of them almost unworn, so he whent off to a local alignment shop, not just tracking, but caster and camber as well, they pointed out to him that a ball joint was badly worn, and he had better fix it before setting up.So he returned, bought the joint and replaced it and then told me the story. 2 years ago,and about only 4000 miles he changed the same joint, he used a cheap pattern part, cost about 20 GBP, and replaced two tyres (200 GBP the pair) because he discovered that the genuine BMW joint was 135 GBP.This time he used the genuine article, because the cheap one had trashed 200 GBP's worth  of tyres.

I should point out here that the matching joint on the other side of this 120,000 mile car is unchanged from new, genuine part (we know the cars history),so cheap bits are not always as good as they first seem.
CLEM
 
nearly all bmw parts made by bosch or siemens on 2001 onwards cars are made in the far east,abs ecu's etc.bmw dont make thier own suspension parts either.or filters or spark plugs.or shocks or springs or water pumps or rotating electrics or exhausts.and mercedes is the same story.
 
There's pattern & pattern if you know what I mean. It's spec that counts. How do you check that ?
Years ago I needed a new battery for my FJ1200 & phoned a place who advertised in MCN at the time. They were advertising Yuasas at good prices. The wumman on the phone freely admitted that the listed cheap Yuasa they were advertising was a piece of crap & they wouldn't recommend it for a big bike kept outdoors. An acceptable spec was about 2/3 the cost of an O/E battery. Manufacturer spec was maybe 95% of the cost of a new Yamaha battery.
So I went to the Yamaha shop round the corner & harangued them until they gave me ?5 off. Job done.
Wife's 5 series warped front discs for fun until we went back to BMW OE.
You gets what you pays for.

Robbie
 
The quality of manufacturing from China can be as good or bad as you want it. We get our stuff made there, you simply have to stand over them with a big stick to ensure quality stays up where we want it. If yu ake your eyes off what they are doing even for a minute quality drops. So yes Asia is very capable of making quality stuff, it's just that it isn't the default.

Toyota Hiluxs ie the alledged indestructable car are made in Thailand and their quality is good. But some Hyundais are made there as well and as they want a very low cost the quality is crap.
 
bmw original discs are made by ATE.BREMBOS are a cheaper alternative but you can get ATE for two thirds the price bmw want to charge for the same discs in a white bmw box from the main dealer.
neale
 
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