The story of "Swamp Thing"

[Fifty150hs]

Originally Posted by c-bass

The odds of me buying anything genuine BMW is slim to none At least not unless it was heavily discounted.

This gasket was "Ajusa" brand

Never heard of that brand. For sure I'll never buy it.

[EODguy]

Originally Posted by Fifty150hs

Never heard of that brand. For sure I'll never buy it.

Me either and the Middle East is famous for shit brands.
In fact so much so that the stealership charges 26 USD to look up a part number even when you have the number and requests an "example" be brought in....

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[c-bass]

Originally Posted by EODguy

Me either and the Middle East is famous for shit brands.
In fact so much so that the stealership charges 26 USD to look up a part number even when you have the number and requests an "example" be brought in....

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Ajusa is a spanish company and I don't know if I would call them any more of a shit brand than elring, beck/arnley, etc,.

I might be wrong but my gut feeling is there's very little to no differences in the vast majority of these gaskets. Even the chinese ones.

[Fifty150hs]

Originally Posted by c-bass

Ajusa is a spanish company and I don't know if I would call them any more of a shit brand than elring, beck/arnley, etc,.

I might be wrong but my gut feeling is there's very little to no differences in the vast majority of these gaskets. Even the chinese ones.

I bought the Viton OFHG from ECS when I did mine. More expensive, but I'll never have to touch it again.

[c-bass]

Originally Posted by Fifty150hs

I bought the Viton OFHG from ECS when I did mine. More expensive, but I'll never have to touch it again.

yeah yeah fancy stuff always in the US.

Ask me how much they want to ship that to me

[Fifty150hs]

Originally Posted by c-bass

yeah yeah fancy stuff always in the US.

Ask me how much they want to ship that to me

Why's that? Taxes? It's not like you're in Australia or New Zealand.

[c-bass]

Originally Posted by Fifty150hs

Why's that? Taxes? It's not like you're in Australia or New Zealand.

Ugh...don't get me started

Most places that offer free US shipping won't ship to Canada for any less than $20ish dollars if at all. Most are much more expensive.

For example I wanted to get the fancy water pump pulley from ECS and the shipping was $50

Then there's duties and taxes coming across the border which means you need a broker, so you pay brokerage fees.

Everyone but USPS rapes us on the brokerage fees.

FedEX, UPS and DHL charge about $40 for the brokerage service...which is a blatant cash grab.

USPS works together with Canada Post and their fees are much more reasonable.

and let's not forget about the exchange rate.

I don't know how Rockauto does it but they use FedEX and all the costs are included coming across the border so there's no surprises. 3 days and it's at my door

We both know that you can throw a gasket in an envelope and mail it here for a couple dollars but apparently "that's not the way it works sir"