Another Blau Story

[Grant Lenahan]

OK, so who IS a good general parts source.  GPR is very apologetic, but 
shipping me Chinese copies as OEM (ignition switch).  Oddly, so far its 
been better than OEM :-)

Grant
On Jan 21, 2006, at 1:41 PM, Ed Kellock wrote:

> In addition to their phone system being a mess, their website is nearly
> worthless as well.
>
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> Behalf Of Brett Dikeman
> Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2006 11:25 AM
> To: Michael Palatas
> Cc: quattro at audifans.com; 200q20v List
> Subject: Re: Another Blau Story
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>
>
> On Jan 21, 2006, at 12:41 PM, Michael Palatas wrote:
>
>> Wouldn't you know, when they arrived, they were cheapo knockoffs,
>> with aluminum conductor elements instead of the brass ones and the
>> bakelite was cheap/light as well.
>
> That's because Blau uses a lot of parts made in China for the company
> licensing older Audi designs, and gets away with it by omission; I've
> warned listers about it once or twice a while back.  I received a
> replacement coolant tank which was lettered in Chinese.
>
> If I had known it wasn't an exact duplicate, not OEM...or seen a
> clear picture, I wouldn't have bought.
>
> Their phone system is horrendous; you have to navigate several menus
> just to talk to anyone, and there really aren't THAT many people in
> the place.  When you hold for someone, you get a 5-10 second "hold"
> and then "that extension isn't available, would you like to continue
> to hold", and if you don't respond, you're hung up on.
>
> It's a real shame that there are very few legitimate places to go
> anymore for cheap parts; Shokan's been known to be difficult for over
> a decade, and Blau's turned into much the same.
>
> Don't I recall them also using photos of people's cars without
> permission, with Blau windshield banners and such photoshopped in?(or
> am I imagining things?)
>
> Brett
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