13 February 2007
Hi and
welcome back
I hope all
of you had a relaxing festive season and got your 2007 lined up steady.
For me it
has been one of the longest holidays ever- 3 weeks, fantastic !
Most of the
time I spent in the bush. Maybe I should quit this job and do something less
“people orientated” ? Again the grass is always greener on the other side.
Sorry to
have kept you waiting for over 2 Months for this Newsletter, but I was going to
jump something on you, sadly this has been delayed due to outside
circumstances.
Hopefully I
can put this into the next newsletter.
I have
noticed more people doing conversions on their Cars.
3L Cressida
or 4L Lexus motors in the Hilux are quite popular.
Or sprucing
up their old Fords etc.
What bothers me, is that there are
people out there who buy their parts all over the show and then expect me to
help them with free-advice. Or even worse get all running for nothing.
To give you
some example of what I am expected to do.
1)
a
gentleman bought a GOTECH
in South Africa through a Newspaper and wanted me to install and tune it. I had
to explain to him, that he might also have to bargain the price of new unit into his equation, as I could not
guarantee if the unit he bought was fit.
2)
Another
gentleman bought a Dicktator in South Africa and installed it himself and then just
wanted me to Dynotune it. No problem with that, but when a car does not even
start it needs a whole lot more than Dynotuning.
3)
I
rebuilt one Customers motor before Christmas and when he dropped it of recently
without an appointment and without any gauges working, he puzzled me. How am I
supposed to check if all is Ok on said motor ?
This means
to say that I can DO most things, but why would you want to pay for a
professional service after going the cheap route ?
December
was the time of the year again, were parents wanted Drop Kits for their kids or
needed somebody to fix the drop kit installed elsewhere.
A good
suspension kit can drop your car 2 inches or not at all. But that kit is
supposed to tighten up your ride and include a lot more than just springs; such
as shocks, torsion bars etc.
Those
300-buck kits consist of springs, which often sag a short while after fitting. This
not only makes the cars stance look sick, but also makes the handling even more
disgusting. You are better of shortening your cars stock springs.
My K&N’s have experienced a
change in prices.
My freight
costs have decreased but the Dollar has become stronger.
The MileMarker Winches are
getting a reasonable feedback now that people have seen something made to work
and not to show off.
We hope to
be able to market these winches below R 9500.00, as we have now managed to
improve our Sea Freight rates. Up to you to order.
So not much
has changed from the past, apart from my being busier than usual.
Rest
assured that I do back my products and try to help as best as I can.
If you
think my prices are not in line, please
tell me as I firmly believe that my prices should be the best in the
industry.
Although I
am pretty well booked already (best February for a long time), please do not
hesitate to contact me for an appointment to have your car run better.
To end this
with an amusing story.
Somebody
out-of-town gave his local spares shop a Cylinder head for porting.
Said shop
sent it to a South African company who then returned it to me.
We all
specialise in something and I can work magic on the Toyota R series heads.
So by the
time it got sent back to SA and then to Namibia again, Christmas had passed and
everybody had a giggle about this in the end.
This quote with my best wishes again for the New Year.
“What's
the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?”
Henry David Thoreau (American Essayist, Poet and Philosopher, 1817-1862)
Yours
Nick von Bergen