Jingkun

iTrader: (4)

Not really bad, but not really good. Here's my story.

Back in March I was roaming around looking for a header, not something loud but cheap and worked (who would have thought, a cheap fb owner). It was at that time that I started getting really involved in the classified section and trying to eke out at least a little more life power from my 7. After a couple of really weird and sour classifieds dealing, neither of which I can find in my pms list anymore, I found car-stuff and they had the pacesetter header listed up for... I think it was about 140. At the time I hadn't read anything on the pacesetter headers, their fitment issues, the exhaust scavenging problems, the paint burning off, or the fact that the exhaust eventually burns through the side walls of the header. I was just excited that after a month of looking and more crap than I ever wanted to go through I'd find my cheap header, ordered on the spot.

When I got home that night (yes i'm one of those android nuts that orders parts and the like from their phone internets) I got on the forums and read about all the nightmares of the pacesetter headers. ****. Well I figured maybe I wont have those fitment issues and it will last until I can save the money to buy the RB header and I'll just deal with the other issues as they come... Well as I waited I had a cat delete pipe welded up, which gave some nice noise and a bit more pep to the stock exhaust. Then about a week.5 went by and the header came in and sat around for about half a week while I waited for a day off work to throw it on. No dice, the thing either wanted my engine to sit 4 inches lower or cut a hole in my floor pans to route the damn thing.

Well I called up car-stuff the next day and got on the phone with someone who obviously wasn't from my country and English wasn't their first language but was still very understandable and very understanding of my situation. I explained to them that the header wasn't a proper fit for my car as it was listed on their site (and also told them to correct the engine dp from 1.2 to 1.1). They got me an RMA number and told me they were gonna pay return shipping and a full refund of the header. So full refund, shipping, handling, the whole 9 yards. Great service. They also offered me a discount on my next order. NICE.

Well on the first of October my sister wrecked my 2010 Kia Soul. Can say I miss it, glad she's alright, thank god for 5 star crash. Well insurance payed me what I would have payed for the car +$500 cash over that, then paid off the car. COOL. All in all I was sitting on about 7.5k in cash, 5k went to savings (soon to be in either stocks, bonds, or mutual funds. Anyone got any suggestions?). So 2.5k goes to coilovers and struts to replace my 28 year old factory equipment, new seals, reupholstry, carb, etc.

Well I figure I'm gonna have the whole front end apart any way to do the coils and such so may as well do all the bushings up there, ball joints(anyone got anything to say about Mevotech?), centric disk rotors, centric ceramic pads, centric drum shoes, centric caliper rebuild kit, etc you get the idea. I ordered all of this plus some window channels and the outer window seals. Well it all came in over time and to my dismay things didn't come out as planned.

The window channels were advertised as being made from a soft rubber with a felt lining and rigid side wall; when they came in they were in a nice thick tube shipper, but what they were was a loose brush lining with a 2mm thick sheet of metal all around making the entire channel rigid and useless, if you tried to bend it to form then the corner would bow outwards hard, and the back of the metal was rubberized. Strike 1.

The outer window seals were advertised as having the right shape to fit into the channel are and being made of all rubber; they came in loose box that had been beat to hell, the box was almost ripped in half and I just watched the UPS guy to finish the job right there on my front step, should have used that same tube shipper from the channels derp... the seals were almost all rubber except for a piece of metal that the rubber was molded to and made the whole thing useless as they were bent in half beyond repair and the shape was completely different than advertised. Strike 2.

The disk brakes I ordered were stock replacement Centric brand rotors, just vented, not power slots or anything. Well they came in 2 white boxes with centric stickers and part numbers on them, seems legit. I open the boxes to 2 different rotors, come to think of it I didn't even check the bolt spacing. It was just blatantly obvious that these were not centric rotors, maybe not even up to the same quality as oems. One was in a bag with an oil substance on the rotor face, I'm assuming this is normal to prevent rust and corrosion on the rotor face but feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. The other rotor was just sitting there in the box with this heavy yellow tint all over it, the tint was sticky, really sticky, so stick that I slapped my hand onto the mounting up and was able to lift the whole rotor flat handed. There was obvious rust on this one as well. One rotor had no markings and the other rotor was only marked as made in CANADA. Strike 3...

I still haven't checked the shoes, caliper rebuild kits, or pads but at least I know those are all centric as the shoes and pads have centric cast into the metal and the caliper kits had sealed centric bags on them. Same goes for the ball joints so hope those fit as well.

Its not that its a sketchy company, one complaint and they'll pay return shipping and refund all your cash, its just that if you order anything from them just look at it as a really super universal part. Hell I was looking for a replacement mirror to mount to the windshield in my FB since the free hanging one wobbles around alot while driving and half the mirrors were a Chevy logo in different sizes, colors, and metal finishes.

Hope this helps someone out there.