G-body parts?

[justcrusin']

Ordered some window trim from G-body parts

Charged me 250.00

All peices are unusable and bent like a prezel.

The box it came in had no supports and was bent over as well.

I would not expect anyone to carry that box very far without it folding over.

They said they would make a shipping claim and send me more.

 

[hang10]

............and .......what else you want. You just want to jump on a soapbox and bash g-body parts. Do us a favor..sell your car..buy a new Mustang. That way when you need somethng you can have your pick of vendors. not the small handfull we TR owners have to choose from.Keep bitching and you just might get your wish....one of these days Brian or Dennis etc....are going to just say screw it and get out of the business !! Have a great day !!!

 

[justcrusin']

............and .......what else you want. You just want to jump on a soapbox and bash g-body parts. Do us a favor..sell your car..buy a new Mustang. That way when you need somethng you can have your pick of vendors. not the small handfull we TR owners have to choose from.Keep bitching and you just might get your wish....one of these days Brian or Dennis etc....are going to just say screw it and get out of the business !! Have a great day !!!

Now I should sell my car because someone put 5' long pieces of thin, bendable window trim in a homemade "box" with no supports?

You can sell your buicks, but I am keeping mine.

 

[jretrodude]

Lol!!

Don't feel bad I haven't had good dealings with that place either. Still waiting on someone to call me back on a couple of pieces I needed. And that was like a month in a half ago!!

 

[jretrodude]

Your best bet I have found out is kirban or nos4gn

 

[hurricanepb]

G-Body Parts

Never had no problems with them, Have talked to Brian a few times . Seems to be a nice honest person to me.

 

[russgoodman]

What did Brian say when you emailed him? You did email him before posting this right?

I'm guessing no, you didn't. If you did then I am sure he would have taken care of you.

Bweavy@aol.com

 

[Grumpy]

What did Brian say when you emailed him? You did email him before posting this right?

I'm guessing no, you didn't. If you did then I am sure he would have taken care of you.

Bweavy@aol.com

this is what I don't understand !!! Pick up the damm phone an talk to Brian !!!

 

[jdpolzin]

Jesus, I'm getting tired of reading posts like this.

Your parts were damaged during shipping, he's sending you new ones. What else can Brian possibly do????





JRetroDude, I talk to Brian about every other day on the phone. Here is his number 252-825-3293. Call him, say hi I'd like to buy these parts from you, could you give a quote shipped? He'll say, "Sure Bud, the price of this will be **** shipped and i'll have them boxed up today for ya!"



In a world of texting, emails, etc......please remember a voice is a powerful thing. I bet Brian gets hundreds of emails daily. I know when I'm selling a bunch of different parts, it gets pretty difficult to keep everyone straight.

Just give him a call and he'll take care of you!

 

[gculver]

Seems to me..the OP really wasn't bashing anyone...just commenting on the lack of adequate packing!

GC

 

[hang10]

Seems to me..the OP really wasn't bashing anyone...just commenting on the lack of adequate packing!

GC

Yea......

 

[Dennis Kirban]

Kirban 2 cents worth

The joys of UPS and shipping in general.

We get it both ways as I am sure Brian and others in the automotive business do. By both ways I mean we buy say door sill weather strips from GM. If you are familar with them they are quite fragile.

Just getting delivered from our local GM supplier some get bent getting to us.

The real joke is we custom paint the new Camaro SS engine covers...we buy 3 at a time from GM...somewhere someone throws and I mean literally throws all 3 of these good side engine covers which are plastic in one box and naturally every time at least 2 are no good because the fragile "ears" on them that are plastic get broke off....

The weird thing is we get I forget which GM weather strip that you could put in a 12 by 12 inch square box arrives in like a micro wave tin foil in a box that is 8 feet long.

We just flat out won't ship certain items such as used consoles as we have had no luck with getting them to the customers in one piece. I am sure Brian has similar stories.

On a similar topic whoever invented the packing peanuts probably made a fortune but in the real world they are a nite mare to get rid of get out of the box off your hands or stuck on some of the parts....

Just my thoughts...based on many years of experience in shipping....

denniskirban@yahoo.com

 

[TURBOSS]

NOW there is a vender with a lot of class to come on and stand up for another vender that shows total class on the part of KIRBAN both him and brian are stand up venders. I also own 2 monte carlo ss and there is a vender of monte parts called dixie monte carlo parts and let me say that man steve pigg is a liar and a crook
so guys be happy these 2 great venders are here

 

[Little6pack]

It is not always the vendors fault, in some cases the shippers are horrible, UPS moves stuff from truck to truck, terminal to terminal multiple times. I have seen them Load trailers tight and other times looses were items will fall and get crushed...

And again some vendors might have help that doesn't know how to pack items correctly but you really can't Blame the owner or the buisness.

 

[DailyDrifter]

Brian uses Fed-ex to ship packages. They do a pretty good job as far as damages go. UPS blows. Those dewsweeps are a PITA to ship, I guarentee if you ordered 10 DIRECTLY from a dealer 6 are going to be screwed up right off the bat. GM does a terrible job packaging them, some are in boxes, others are in plastic wrap and they always get phucked up.

Kirban, the door seals are the ones that come in the 8ft box . And they wonder why GM was going bankrupt. Theres no reason for door weather stripping to be shipped in a 8'x18"x6" box

 

[Timbuick]

I recieved a shipment from Brian all the way to the UK. It include a set of fibreglass bumper fillers and a complete header panel. By the time I recieved them they had been thru multiple depots and around 3-4000 miles. I undid the packing which seemed a little light in places, but all parts were good.
Equally, Dennis at Kirban has sent packages that have been just fine after shipping including door dew rails.
Sometimes couriers just smash things up and you get unlucky.

 

[Little6pack]

Yup it is all luck of the draw. I have seen pizzed off UPS driver reload trucks because they did not like the way the loaders did it. Saw one guy heave & squish boxes.

I seen stuff come down the shoots like a big kids slide & the 1st items would get CREAMED from the weight of all the other stuff sliding behind it.

Could be the same over at FED EX too.. You just never know.

As for Dennis I think he uses UPS. His items came well packed that is the true secret for shipping anything. Always go the extreme. It may cost a little more but worth it.

 

[Pittsburghkid]

No to go off track but it pissed me off that they ask if you want insurance. They're all a business out to make money by satisfied customers and they have the audacity to offer a feature for us to pay they more so that they should screw up that's the only way our items will be covered. I mean come on if I hire someone to put in new windows and they leak when it rains can the installer then say "oh well you didn't get the insurance so I guess you SOL". The insurance should start when I hand you my money and my item because it now your responsibility and should you break it you now must replace my item because your job is to get it from point A to point B without breaking it. It's a shipping company, if they want to offer insurance they're in the wrong business.

 

[gn4u2c]

Shippers are a 3rd party, your paying for parts in good shape, the cost of shipping is listed seperate because the shipper is an a-hole and destroys stuff is no ones fault but there own. Not yours and not the supplier. I am certain if you asked to pick the stuff up in person it would be A-ok with any vendor who has the parts in stock.
I worked at ups distribution center for awhile and let me tell you your driver may smile at your door, and the lady at the counter may seen nice but other than that they could give a fukc about your stuff. I saw stuff kicked 20-30 feet at a shot into trucks, fall off overhead conveyors, get backed into with fork lifts even a game of basketball with packages. You would crap yourself if you knew what all went on on. Now not every employees was a screw up but man they have way more than there fair share.
Yes any item over the $100 min you should ask for extra insurance. Why ?? internal ups You get written up for damaging packages that are insured. If its not Ha they don't care. I have seen people go to a manager and say I accidentally backed over this with a fork lift !! manager says tape it up put it on the truck and that's that !!!