94turbosi

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It would be nice to have a old company like wings west , Seibon, Vis ect. I'm sure those companies would keep up with the product.

TypeRfit

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Op sorry to hear about your situation. That's pretty sketchy. Hopefully it gets resolved for you.

On a side note, this may or may not be the best place to bring this up but a friend of mine owns a carbon fiber company making body parts for sprint cars, midgets, mini sprints. Spectacular work and reasonably priced. I know he could make a 3 piece front end no problem. Pm me if you would like some info or pricing.

Twenty47

anyone see that buddy club rsx wide body kit that someone posted on fb? it popped up in my news feed and had me thinking how nice it would be if a company like that made a quality 3 piece front that you could just order and not have to worry about.

Twenty47

where is he located? crossing fingers he's close since i live within a half days drive of all the serious sprint car racing.

TypeRfit

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Located in Tucson, Az. He actually started out making paintball gun products, then moved on from there. He has worked with Nasa on some stuff but now does a lot of sprint car bodies, wings etc etc. Has been a good friend of mine for a long time and just trying to help him expand as well as helping the Honda/racing community with a honest guy with awesome products. He deals primarily with Carbon fiber/kevlar products but can do fiberglass if wanted.

MONSTERZC

The main issue with these type of company's. Is how they over promise and underdeliver. Another problem could be is the experience of employee's doing the work. That can contribute to poor fitment issue's. I understand that everycar is going to need trimming for a proper fit. but it should be very minimal.

Twenty47

most of the time people say the fitments are good.. they just waited an insane amount of time

CO_RaceFab

i cant speak on stradas product but personally i think the guy is an idiot. wil on the other hand is a good person, my ef carbon front fits great looks great and didnt take as long as i expected. most people dont understand exospeed is at the mercy of the body guy that actually makes the parts. its not like wil is out in the shop making these himself on a production level. these are the best front ends, quality takes time and he gets orders all day long and he is a one man army... my one experience with strada wasnt good he said he had carbon fronts in stock but could not produce a picture and since then i still havent seen a carbon ef front from him. dude is a liar and a biter he needs to get his own mind and quit copying everything he can get his hands on.

redboost10

www.stohr.com

send them an email or give them a call, im sure they can help out.

SonicRacing1

Those days are long gone, those we're the good days

93supercoupe

there must be someone reading this thread that is capable of making nice front ends.

So do it, the business is there.

E Town DSM

Marc P hit the nail on the head. Problem is everyone wants to come out and make a front for a cheap price but they dont have the capital to maintain a business running. So then your stealing from peter to pay paul and before you know it your belly up and the topic of every hate thread on the internet. Seems to be a treand lately with this stuff aswell as others out there. Like someone said earlier might be time to get some old school body kit companies involved they never seemed to have issues mass producing stuff

Ls_dx

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bingo.

061000rr

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well it wont get your money back or your sunroof plug jake but this did loose him at least one sale from me. i was going to get a carbon jdm integra front end and hood from him. BUT NOT ANYMORE!!

2fastGSR

Thank you, everyone.

All I wanted to do is show what kind of company they are. I don't want to see them rip someone else off for more money.

We have already chalked up the money in the loss column, so learn from our mistakes and be careful who you do business with!

nsxmatt

I really get tired of hearing people say this. I don't care how good of a guy he is, he takes peoples money and doesn't deliver products when he promises and sometimes not at ever. If he is at the mercy of someone else then he needs to quit taking orders and peoples hard earned money till he can produce products when promised. Good guys don't take peoples money and lie to their face and send out false tracking numbers and keep all the profits.

Robin6

...i tried to buy 2 wide fenders, no bumper, and kept on being told they are on the way...i ended up disputing with paypal and getting a refund from strata after weeks of being put off. But the refund was via paypal dispute, not him, he hung up the phone on me when I reqested a refund due to weeks of delays.

He might be a good guy, but not telling the truth is not a good trait as a business person to have.

Boostedld9

I feel bad for everyone getting screwed over by these companies. I haven't had much luck with a local fiberglass company that builds monster truck bodies in having them build a mold and pieces for the front end I built. I also planned on building a 3 piece front end for my buddies 99 hatch but I'm not liking these run arounds.

sanman000719

this is why ill run without a front bumper im scared to invest money for a 3 piece front end and never get it.

061000rr

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i will only buy from a stocking dealer. if someone has a front end in stock i will get one but thats the only way.

h22crxpwr

I'm glad you posted up your experience with them.. just like all the other shops that burn people but nobody hears about it and they get to scam or just take peoples money and leave them sitting for months or even years with no product. or they just never get it.

Too many people trying to sell parts that they dont even have. Then they get overwhelmed with orders and no supply and just keep the cash because they cant meet the demand.

Why take orders for parts you don't have?? i guess people would rather destroy their business than lose out on a $500-$1000 sale??

dturbocivic

from what it seems like to me (i havent delt with strada personally )

.... it seems like strada attempted to produce a product that he/they really had no idea about producing in the 1st place.

it doesnt seem like a rob peter/pay paul type thing, but a general lack of knowledge in the composite manufacturing process, which in the end sucks for everyone involved, receiving nothing but the run around for months/year(s) and a piece of **** product to match.

2fastGSR

What really gets to me is that Strada tries so hard to report/remove social media posts and/or threads like these to hide the situations.

They would rather spend their time trying to cover up their mistakes instead of trying to resolve the situation.

It truly shows what the initial motivation is with some companies...

2k.civic.si

still a better company then exospeed LOL

surfingsk8r

I think most people here wold disagree with that. I know exospeed has had people waiting on things but in my experience in dealing with wil, my products were always received as described and the quality was always top notch. Some times you just have to wait for things thats life. I just try to find people that will be honest about it as in saying to me "hay man Im sorry this is taking longer than planned I know I said 5 weeks but its really going to be more like 4 months" I would rather be told that and receive a quality piece 4 months later then be told you'll get it in a week and then 4 months later I get it and it's ****. My 2c.