[s-cars] Anyone familiar with this e-bay seller?
Bjørn Ødegård
beernuts at online.no
Fri Sep 19 11:27:16 EDT 2003
Is it our 'friend' Robert? ;o))
Bjorn :o)
'92 S4 Roland Mayer equipped. Safe as a baby!
Btw: See http://www.qstuning.com/mtm.asp for some cool info! :o)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mihnea Cotet" <mik at info.fundp.ac.be>
To: "Jed Batchelder" <jkvt at wcvt.com>
Cc: <s-car-list at audifans.com>
Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 9:48 AM
Subject: Re: [s-cars] Anyone familiar with this e-bay seller?
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> Never had to deal with him but I've sent him the following email, not
> because I wanted to buy it but rather because I wanted to know if the
guy
> knows what he's selling or not.... and his answer lies below my email:
>
> c_mihnea@********.com wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
>
> I am very interested in your chip offer but if you don't mind, I have
a few
> questions about the chips:
>
> -who/which company programmed them exactly?
> -what are the boost levels I should be seeing with the chips at 4000,
6000
> and 7000 RPMs?
> -what fuel are they meant for?
> -is the altitude boost reduction failsafe feature still retained?
> -what AFRs and EGTs should I expect with the chips after the turbine?
>
>
> Thanks a lot for your answer in advance,
>
>
> M.C from Europe
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>
> And the seller replied:
>
> From: "German Parts Wholesale"
<germanpartswholesale@***********.com>
>
> Sorry, No Foreign Sales.
>
>
> My conclusion? He chose the easy answer in order to avoid having to
say
> what he didn't know (like boost and advance possibly, and most likely
EGTs
> and AFRs). Another person I know has emailed him asking for details
(dunno
> which exactly though) and the seller has never replied.
>
> Additionally, for the price he's selling the chipset, there's no way
in
> h*ll he could sell his own work, at least I would never sell my own
chips
> on Ebay at $179 and "buy it now" at $199, damn, I know how much
efforts it
> cost me to do them and I'd never do that. But this seller most likely
> doesn't have a single clue what he's reselling, he may be reselling
some
> famous tuner's chips (like Ned's Stage 3? who knows?) but he may also
> resell crappy chips he's bought off of German Ebay where there are
some
> real dangerous chipsets for sale!
>
> So one word: BEWARE!
>
>
> HTH,
>
> Mihnea
>
>
>
> At 20:57 18/09/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>
>
>http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=243239078
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> >
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