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Just for the heck of it, I stopped in to my local Mustang dealer
and bought a repop left (driver) fender. It was an experiment to see if the state of the art in repop had gotten any better than the last time I tried (over 5 years ago). I told the owner I was sure he'd by owning it again in a few days after I fit them. Yes, he certainly will.
Here is a pic of the original fender
It is just hanging there with no bolts. Note how it fits where the
eyebrow meets the window. Straight and flat -- pretty good.
Here is the repop
I turned on the flash so you could see how far off the line it is at
the cowl.
Here is the mismatch up close
This is utter BS. This is simply no excuse for this. How long have they been making these -- 10 years? Note that this 'fine piece of Asian tin' also weighs over 2 pounds less.
I'm not sure the people who brought you these 'fine products' did us a favor. Now that they're out there, it becomes the standard. No has to do better than the standard, because people are buying this junk.
The bar is simply too low. It only gets better if the sales go away.
Hopefully this post will help dry up sales, if only just a little.
The estimate I've seen on these is around 15 hours to get it 'close'. (15*$35 hour=$525). If it's a black car I'd double that (for a great paint job). Boy, we sure saved a lot of money buying new tin, didn't we?
I could go down the road to Wild West Mustang Ranch, but he wants $300 for a used Fender, then I pay $40 to media blast, and then who knows how many hours to fix the probable dents.
That's more than a NORS (New Old Replacement Stock or original Ford vendor) fender. And it's probably rusty too.
On my day off next Friday I'm taking a 4 hour (each way) road trip to a warehouse that stocks the NORS fender.
It's either that or I pay over $150 to ship it!
I think I'll just call it "our Sunday drive".
and bought a repop left (driver) fender. It was an experiment to see if the state of the art in repop had gotten any better than the last time I tried (over 5 years ago). I told the owner I was sure he'd by owning it again in a few days after I fit them. Yes, he certainly will.
Here is a pic of the original fender
It is just hanging there with no bolts. Note how it fits where the
eyebrow meets the window. Straight and flat -- pretty good.
Here is the repop
I turned on the flash so you could see how far off the line it is at
the cowl.
Here is the mismatch up close
This is utter BS. This is simply no excuse for this. How long have they been making these -- 10 years? Note that this 'fine piece of Asian tin' also weighs over 2 pounds less.
I'm not sure the people who brought you these 'fine products' did us a favor. Now that they're out there, it becomes the standard. No has to do better than the standard, because people are buying this junk.
The bar is simply too low. It only gets better if the sales go away.
Hopefully this post will help dry up sales, if only just a little.
The estimate I've seen on these is around 15 hours to get it 'close'. (15*$35 hour=$525). If it's a black car I'd double that (for a great paint job). Boy, we sure saved a lot of money buying new tin, didn't we?
I could go down the road to Wild West Mustang Ranch, but he wants $300 for a used Fender, then I pay $40 to media blast, and then who knows how many hours to fix the probable dents.
That's more than a NORS (New Old Replacement Stock or original Ford vendor) fender. And it's probably rusty too.
On my day off next Friday I'm taking a 4 hour (each way) road trip to a warehouse that stocks the NORS fender.
It's either that or I pay over $150 to ship it!
I think I'll just call it "our Sunday drive".