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Originally Posted by wpoll
Looking forward to hearing about a positive resolution on this one! :-)
And I'm still looking for that darm 'scope meter....
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You will not believe this,popped down to car parts place, was handed the box that was kosher so to speak, said herth+buss on it, opened it saw a starter in it that had bosch stamped in the alloy body and the shaft had made in germany on it (on top of the solenoid there was a silver label specific to the herth+buss product!alarm bells started ringing)....hmmmm gave it the once over saw that the bolts and most of the body had black spray over it, main body was sprayed nice, on the bolts black spray just didn't seem right.
I queried them over this and they said that's the way it is and the firm herth and buss doesn't actually make starters(rubbish I thought)....mechanic passing by said yeah thats the way it is...paid walked out, and queried one of the employees outside , he said looks new (hmm yeah they sprayed it I told him) if it wasn't you would see the damage in the philipps screws on the solenoid etc! I looked closely and one was damaged but sprayed over....took it back and got a refund!
Complained to head office (not in same town as me)who got another one out of stock and said there were no references to bosch on the one they were looking at...and no signs of shoddy spray work....told him mate someone has ripped you off, purchased item, taken off labeling from new item and taken new item, put their old one back in box with label (and sprayed it) and gone for a refund! either way they are sending the 'new' one down next week but there is no way on earth unless i see it come out of sealed box be sure it is actually new! even the website that refers to starter shows the actual image as having denso on the body that I am sure is some sort of trading standards violation....so in a right mind to get existing one reconditioned it if i can.