"Tripper" (tripe46)
08/12/2019 at 11:50 • Filed to: None
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"Tripper" (tripe46)
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Over the years I have ordered from ECS, and all of the companies they have gobbled up in recent years (Turner, Pelican, what was left of BAV Auto...)
I’ve never had an issue. I was thinking just that when I stumbled across a bunch of posts talking about how much ECS sucks... I thought “one person had one bad experience and has blown it out of proportion” as I ordered wheel spacers and a few other odds and ends.
That was 15 days ago! When I have contacted them, they have told me that the shipment is delayed, but not much else. So I contacted the company that makes the spacers and asked about their agreement with ECS. They weren’t a ton of help but it sounded to me like ECS wasn’t their favorite client.
I’ve bought the spacers to play around with fitment before I decide on aftermarket wheels. Feeling like I should have just bought the wheels I’m pretty sure I’m going get anyway.
This is honestly not a big deal, but this is the second weekend in a row that I was hoping to do more than wash one of the cars. Gimme my parts!!
I hope everyone had a great weekend!
BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo
> Tripper
08/12/2019 at 11:54 |
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I’ve found that Pelican has excellent customer service.
And jelly beans. Don’t forget those.
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Tripper
> BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo
08/12/2019 at 11:56 |
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Pelican is awesome, I’ve never had an issue with Turner either. Before or After ECS.
promoted by the color red
> Tripper
08/12/2019 at 12:00 |
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How about FCP Euro? They usually have the best prices and good shipping times.
TrickJos
> Tripper
08/12/2019 at 12:17 |
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Hmmm. I’ve never had trouble with ECS either. Although, I’ve started buying from shopdap.com as my first choice for VW parts.
Wacko
> Tripper
08/12/2019 at 12:26 |
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could be worse you could be a leafs fan
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Tripper
> promoted by the color red
08/12/2019 at 12:32 |
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Love them. I went to ECS for spacers because they have a “flush kit”. Flush with the wheel arches is where I always like to start when choosing wheels for a new car. In the past I have run wheels that are only slightly different from factory specs.
T o get where I think I want to be on my Alltrack , I will have to change the offset a lot and stagger the rear wheels. I want to feel what that is like on spacers before I go all in on a set of wheels.
just-a-scratch
> Tripper
08/12/2019 at 12:39 |
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I don’t usually use ECS, but have used many of the sites they own. I’ve had very good experience with Pelican and Turner.
Jalopnik did a piece on ECS a while back. It was not a good look for them.
https://jalopnik.com/spying-on-employees-screwing-buyers-what-went-wrong-a-1827474482
For non-ECS stuff that’s OEM or OEM-equivalent (not performance upgrades) I really like AutohausAZ.
razorbeamteam
> Tripper
08/12/2019 at 13:21 |
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ECS has a long documented history of being shitty. I ordered new lugs/spacers from them so I could run GTI wheels on my Audi. I paid for rush shipping because I needed everything quickly for a trip I was going on. They waited 5 days before they released the order from their warehouse which totally negated any benefit of rush shipping.
Apparently they are under new management now and I heard things were improving, but apparently not. Jalopnik did an article on it a while back I believe .
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razorbeamteam
> razorbeamteam
08/12/2019 at 13:21 |
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https://jalopnik.com/spying-on-employees-screwing-buyers-what-went-wrong-a-1827474482
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Tripper
> razorbeamteam
08/12/2019 at 13:31 |
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I saw that after I read down the rabbit hole about ECS a little bit. “42 Draft Designs” Is the company that ECS seems to get all of their VAG cnc’d parts from. I talked to them. They were very political about the matter not blaming ECS and saying that it would probably take the same time if I had ordered direct from them. However the lead time for the spacers on their site was 3-4 business days. Today is day 15 and just minutes ago I got an email from ECS saying that they expect to get them tomorrow...THEN they ship to me.