Marcus,
I gotta tell ya you really got to me. I'm glad I don't own the TRF.
Maybe you should complain to the british cars lsst or better yet the TVR
list on the net. I'm sure you'll get sympathy there.
Marcus Tooze wrote:
>
> Heres a quick story,
>
> I just got off the phone with the TRF tech line. I called them because
> there is a bushing on my TVR that I suspect is from a spitfire (upper and
>lower
> inner a-arm front susp.). I wanted somebody to measure one
> to see if it matched the one I have on my TVR, if it did...I
> would then purchase it. The guy asked me if I had a TR part number, to
> which I replied no, but it looked a lot like a spit a-arm bushing,
> could he measure it for me. The guy launcehd into a monologue about
> how I should call a TVR dealer, or Gene Bird to get one. I said they
> didn't have them available. He then carried on saying how
> this wasn't how they normally conducted business and that he needed
> a part number and couldn't go running around measuring bushings (I only
> wanted him to measure one, the spit one). This
> went on for 10 minutes, with me saying "but, I only want you
> to measure one..." only to be interupted
> in mid-sentence by him telling me how I should call TVR for the part.
> Finally he broke down
> and looked up the number on the computer to go get a bushing to measure.
> Out of stock.
>
> I've never ordered anything from TRF for the whole time I've I've
> owned/ran british cars, because they are always out of stock and they are
> expensive. This mans rudeness pretty much capped it for me....
>
> marcus
>
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Lenny Seidman
Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, USA
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