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05-10-2012, 11:28 AM | #1 |
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Quality of nos hood hinges
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05-10-2012, 04:39 PM | #2 |
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Re: Quality of nos hood hinges
sounds like you bought GM reproduction parts from 15 or so years ago that some r selling as NOS when in fact they are repop stuff
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Probably should have been better described as "NORS".
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a friend of mine used repops from lmc (made in argentina of all places) said they work perfectly.
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05-10-2012, 07:57 PM | #6 |
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They are still available from GMParts direct for $48 each, at least as of three weeks ago.
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it is a very deceptive practise by GM in thier marketing of repop parts resto parts whatever you want to call them but they aint NOS
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What people are saying is GM started re-issuing parts that had long since been depleted,once others started replicating them. This began over 20 years ago. About that time was when you'd be real lucky to find any original parts (N.O.S.) remaining in stock because the big vintage part vendors had cleaned out the stocks of desirable parts. GM parts were on a national computerized inventory by then. Back then is when I stopped ordering up parts because it became unclear what was truly N.O.S. and what was a licensed replica made by the same manufacturer in the same foreign country as reproduction,because it was reproduction...in a GM box because GM can do that.It's their part. That would be fine when stock ran out within a decade after the trucks were built. But,a lot of things have changed since and now a part sold by GM for a '72 is no more an OEM part than Lynard Skynard is the same band we listened to in the '70s.
A true OEM part would be the same quality part as what came on these trucks and would operate as new...perfectly.
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WIndow crank handle and handle to open door (Inner) These handles were used on GM vans into the 90's with the exact same part. I'll gladly pay $33 for a window crank from gm because it will not strip in 6 months like all the other junk. Same thing with the chrome handle to open door! The gm parts is even 30% heavier! So some of the parts that GM still is fit many other vehicles... |
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