"Other Brand" Front lip and rear diffuser replica

mye90 · 01-21-2009, 09:21 PM

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Originally Posted by MMMorish

I'm just curious if you regret going with the matte black grill instead of the CF grill now that you have a CF lip?

Anyone else have any thoughts on this?

matte grilles will match up just as well as the carbon fiber grille IMO, since they are all dark colored...

leJUNd · 01-21-2009, 10:20 PM

look at how much business vorsteiner would get if they'd lower their price.

JIRO72 · 01-22-2009, 12:05 AM

Looks good!

spyderco10 · 01-22-2009, 12:10 AM

That looks outstanding, I just might have to pick me up one.

PPINESM3 · 01-22-2009, 12:57 AM

We need to get a group buy started ASAP!

camaross305 · 01-22-2009, 01:23 AM

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Originally Posted by MMMorish

I'm just curious if you regret going with the matte black grill instead of the CF grill now that you have a CF lip?

Anyone else have any thoughts on this?

Actually im getting the outer rim of the grille painted to match the car and the slits of the grille painted gloss black to match all of the gloss trim around the windows etc.

MrHarris · 01-22-2009, 02:13 AM

How much were these pieces and where you get them? PM me!

endofanera7 · 01-22-2009, 04:18 AM

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Originally Posted by camaross305

Actually im getting the outer rim of the grille painted to match the car and the slits of the grille painted gloss black to match all of the gloss trim around the windows etc.

I thought painted grills will get chip sooner or later. It's not worth the money.

MMMorish · 01-22-2009, 05:18 AM

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Originally Posted by PPINESM3

We need to get a group buy started ASAP!

+1000000 I emailed jl-motering yesterday and still haven't heard back from them. It's kind of weird that the website has no phone number.

Anyone else hear back from them? Anyone know if they make the typeII diffuser?

endofanera7 · 01-22-2009, 07:01 AM

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Originally Posted by MMMorish

+1000000 I emailed jl-motering yesterday and still haven't heard back from them. It's kind of weird that the website has no phone number.

Anyone else hear back from them? Anyone know if they make the typeII diffuser?

I heard they make Type II. Maybe you should try to contact them thru their ebay store??

BarryC · 01-22-2009, 07:04 AM

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Originally Posted by MMMorish

+1000000 I emailed jl-motering yesterday and still haven't heard back from them. It's kind of weird that the website has no phone number.

Anyone else hear back from them? Anyone know if they make the typeII diffuser?

I have a lip on order and my experience re: communication is that it can take a day or so for them to get back to you. I did get a phone no. when I paypal'd my deposit which I was told was refundable but I too thought it was a bit odd that there was no phone no. on their website. I was also told that they would have more v-style lips in by the end of this week so I would expect to receive my lip within the next 10 days or so.

Thx,
BC

ACZakka325i · 01-22-2009, 09:22 AM

I received word back within 24hrs.

I'm down for a Group Buy Buy Buy! ! !

camaross305 · 01-22-2009, 09:31 AM

Yea they usually took a day or so to respond. They were very timely with most of the responses. I had about 40-50 people pm me so far lol so im sure he is flooded with emails right now LOL

KiokenM3 · 01-22-2009, 09:58 AM

i checked the site and didnt see any of the vrs style rear diffusers. do you think they'll have any more soon?

GT3 Tim · 01-22-2009, 10:59 AM

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Originally Posted by camaross305

Yea they usually took a day or so to respond. They were very timely with most of the responses. I had about 40-50 people pm me so far lol so im sure he is flooded with emails right now LOL

Sorry about that. lol

I heard back from them today....emailed yesterday. Thanks for all the info!

camaross305 · 01-22-2009, 11:00 AM

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Originally Posted by KiokenM3

i checked the site and didnt see any of the vrs style rear diffusers. do you think they'll have any more soon?

alot of what they have is not listed on their website.... just contact them directly

MMMorish · 01-22-2009, 12:21 PM

Okay gang, I just got the scoop on what they have. James at jl-motoring emailed me earlier and said that they do not have the type II diffuser yet, just the full length one for now.

With that said, I'm gonna hold off a bit to see what Eclipse's rear diffuser looks like once production models are ready to go.

Hopefully they'll have one ready in the next month or so. My car is in storage now and I want all the mods to be complete when I pull the car out for spring

tightie · 01-22-2009, 12:24 PM

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Originally Posted by accordingi2ime

look at how much business vorsteiner would get if they'd lower their price.

You're not taking something in factor.. Vorsteiner did all the R&D for the front lip and rear diffuser. They simply took their work and copied it. Sure, I bet Vorsteiner can lower the price if they just threw something together and started making mass numbers of items but they aren't like that. They take their time, make sure it fits perfectly and if it doesn't they scrap it.

Do a little homework on it, and you'll find out why it costs so much.

spyderco10 · 01-22-2009, 01:04 PM

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Originally Posted by MrHarris

How much were these pieces and where you get them? PM me!

Don't know if this is the same one, but I found this by google.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...TQ:MOTORS:1123

endofanera7 · 01-22-2009, 01:16 PM

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Originally Posted by spyderco10

Don't know if this is the same one, but I found this by google.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...TQ:MOTORS:1123

That's the 3D Design replica.

BarryC · 01-22-2009, 02:43 PM

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Originally Posted by tightie

You're not taking something in factor.. Vorsteiner did all the R&D for the front lip and rear diffuser. They simply took their work and copied it. Sure, I bet Vorsteiner can lower the price if they just threw something together and started making mass numbers of items but they aren't like that. They take their time, make sure it fits perfectly and if it doesn't they scrap it.

Do a little homework on it, and you'll find out why it costs so much.

I wish my company could use the argument that we need to recover our R&D to justify a price. The market price is what it is and it's up to the manufacturer to figure out how to make money/recover R&D at the market price. Additionally, if Vorsteiner has to expend a "massive" amount of R&D (presumably justifying a high price) to develop something that is easily copied then it's a bad investment to begin with as the IP was easily replicated.

The fundamental problem Vorsteiner has is their products are easily copied and their pricing strategy presumes they are not. Maybe they would have sold twice as many lips at half the price to get to the same ROI. Now their short-sightedness in their pricing strategy has alienated a sizeable portion of their target market making it easy for someone else to come in and take share.

Just my $0.02....

BC

09E92M34ME · 01-22-2009, 06:17 PM

Looks amazing. I'm now torn between that and the 3d.

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