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Offline MC_PEA

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Re: Too good to be true?
« Reply #1 on: 07 April 2012, 18:19 »
I reckon it will be a cheap chinese copy. Sometimes the seller says they are un the UK but the item ships from china  :huh:

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Re: Too good to be true?
« Reply #2 on: 07 April 2012, 18:25 »
But will it be any good?

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Re: Too good to be true?
« Reply #3 on: 07 April 2012, 18:55 »
It will fall apart,

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Re: Too good to be true?
« Reply #4 on: 07 April 2012, 19:05 »
there was a similar post on here that a tuning firm used a chinese copy to test and it did ok did not fall apart but personally i would buy a oem part for peace of mind

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Re: Too good to be true?
« Reply #5 on: 07 April 2012, 19:12 »
I'm just thinking at this price i could buy it and replace all the sills with oem parts and il still be saving loads

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Re: Too good to be true?
« Reply #6 on: 07 April 2012, 19:21 »
get one pal i think even chinese stuff is getting better made nowadays there going to be the new japanese style quality made,considering there the richest country in the world now,5-10 years ago i would have said leave well alone it would of been made by the sh!tiest metal they could find lo,

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Re: Too good to be true?
« Reply #7 on: 07 April 2012, 19:23 »
theres been some good results at r-tech with these cheap turbos not saying that one in particular give r-tech a ring and ask nick what he thinks would be a phone call worth doing  :smiley:


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losing interest in the golf and now not so skint !!!!!

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Re: Too good to be true?
« Reply #8 on: 07 April 2012, 20:13 »
Reason the fail is there not balanced properly, buy one, strip down , get it balanced, rebuild it and you'll probably be ok.

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Re: Too good to be true?
« Reply #9 on: 07 April 2012, 20:17 »
+1
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