Cloneufc

I bought a Ingalls camber kit on ebay from a seller import_auto_performance who has 99.4% good feedback! He is selling fake camber kits. I bought a real one for my ep3 then I bought an RSX and ordered this kit and it's a fake. It almost fooled me. Just giving people a heads up to look out! Also notice the Made in Taiwan on the fake. The box is also missing the Ingalls address.

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blah1219

Why do people go through Ebay in the first place. You get what you pay for. So go through a reputable vendor!

b_ron

any noticeable difference in the product itself or is it just the packaging?


i like how their posting says "Do not be fooled by cheap imitations."

turboteg2nv

I'm not 100% convinced it's fake. The only discernible difference is where it was manufactured. Are there any other threads or claims of fake Ingalls products on eBay?

Paul 631

So one is made in taiwan, while the other is made in 'multiple countries'...

Any differences in the actual product appearance?

Cloneufc

It's a USA company and assembled in the USA is the same as made in the USA , they mean the material could be sourced from another country. They could not be made in Taiwan. I will confirm they are fake as soon as Ingalls gets back to me and confirms it. If you really look at the box there are many differences. No address, nothing on the top saying Performance Suspension, no fastcam lettering, there are many differences. The bolts say Ingalls on them with the triangle. The fake Ingalls black powder coating keeps coming off on my hands while the real ingalls bolts dont. I made a mistake the fake has 12.9 stamped on it really lightly.

lazlong

In my book "made" and "assembled" are two distinctly different actions.

Props to Ingalls for telling the truth and being an honest company. That's how you get lifelong customers.

Sorry to hear you got had. Thanks for the heads up.

Cloneufc

Assembled in the USA: A product that includes foreign components may be called "Assembled in USA" without qualification when its principal assembly takes place in the U.S. and the assembly is substantial. For the "assembly" claim to be valid, the product’s "last substantial transformation" also should have occurred in the U.S. That’s why a "screwdriver" assembly in the U.S. of foreign components into a final product at the end of the manufacturing process doesn’t usually qualify for the "Assembled in USA" claim.

turboteg2nv

Let us know if you get a response from Ingalls, I'm curious what their response will be. I know other manufacturers go to great lengths to prove their authenticity (and will show you knockoffs on their website compared to their products), like TiaL, Tein, etc...

Cloneufc

I should know in a couple days if this is truely a fake. I did get a response back from ingalls and they are looking into it.

b_ron

Any word on this yet?

Cloneufc

Ingalls wrote me back with contradictory information. They said they are real but that there is some kind of error and they should not have been shipped in that box. I guess you could interpret it as they don't know if they are real or not.

I just bought an ingalls rear camber kit and it's real. The front kit just seems like a knockoff.

b_ron

Have you compared the 2 physically?
After reading this thread, I stopped looking for these on eBay and bought a pair from ClubRSX. Supposed to be here tomorrow.
I'm assuming ClubRSX sells the "real" ones

turboteg2nv

Cliffs:
1. Ingalls has their products made in Taiwan for cheap
2. repackages them in the USA as "made in USA"
3. ???
4. Profit!

b_ron

Ok well my rears came in two separate boxes. These are from Club RSX

Cloneufc

I bought the rears from another company and the set came in one box. You can tell if the rears are real because it will have the I on the metal itself and the rubber bushing will say ingalls.