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This is just a bit of advise about buying parts from overseas

I got a timing belt kit on ebay from the USA about 12 months ago for my GT forester project car
The belt is made in Japan but all the idlers/pulleys didn't have anything on them i found out today they are from China:mad:

I fitted the kit, All was worked good for a couple of days. Just a bit of history about the car first it was my sons car but he had a crash and the GT got written off:(, Engine was ok before the crash.
It sounded like it had a big-end knock so i let it sit for a couple of months i decided to get my finger out and sort it out,I had a Subaru specialist have a listen he said it would be the timing belt tensioner. So off came the covers again what i found is the tensioner had been hitting on a steel pin (stopper) and wore a piece out of the top. The tension wasn't as firm as it should have been either.
The sealed bearing on the end of the tensioner also had grease coming out of it, When i had a look at the bottom pulley i found if had a fair bit of play it wasn't making any noise when i spun it. It just had too much play for my liking.
Because it took so long for me to find out what was wrong there is no point trying to send it back besides postage would be my problem:mad:.

So for the sake of $150 saving your better buying local if it's faulty you can take it back and you will know where the parts come from.
It's now going to cost me another $300+

Jan

had a problem with a power pack i purchased from china i couldn't get one in australia fujitsu monitor 24v x 240 well the first one lasted 14 hours and over heated so sent them a email they replaced it didn't want the old one back and is still working fine after 2 months being used 24x7 i don't turn my computers off

yarney wrote:So for the sake of $150 saving your better buying local if it's faulty you can take it back and you will know where the parts come from.
It's now going to cost me another $300+

While it is true about saving money you need to be very careful about the product you buy. I've done the same and must say that I've had a positive experience with it. I went with a Dayco kit that was from memory built in the US.

My kit was for an EJ22 SOHC and I got it for half the cost of the cheapest unit I could find in oz (but I couldn't work out where this oz unit was made). The cost included postage. I was happy and it's still going very well.

Do your research, don't jump in and buy the first unit you see - there's no returns to claim back on!

Cheers

Bennie

and to the business owners complaining we all are buying overseas ..... who was it that told us as consumers when looking/asking for information on particular products - refer to our website, all the information is on our website, nobody produces leaflets anymore - check the website - it's been one reason why people got computers and 'net access

And, so we looked on the internet - and found, not to our amazement , the same product is easy to buy from overseas suppliers - some who have better website info

Came back to bite them, and the consumer sometimes

Sometimes getting the parts from overseas is the only option.

Sadly sometimes those parts are junk, I have had it happen to me as well.

TOONGA

You should trade ya bus in for one of those Great Wall cars Jan, Im sure you'll have years of trouble free motoring

anyone see the review of a certain 4WD in a Sydney ? paper last week ? Before the importer could get one to the journos they bought a used one. Beat the dealer down, told him what it's job was, he admitted he'd be glad to see it go. They had trouble getting it into 4WD to which it was suggested get it into full lock and reverse and see if that helped. They did their 4,000 odd km review, felt it was not happy with a camping load. Time came to sell, and they tried for months and finally sold it with 60,000km on it, for about half its new price as a two year old.. Sure they'll gain cult status like the Niva