View Single Post
      01-21-2013, 08:10 AM   #132
TheSt|G
Resident Tamed Racing Driver
TheSt|G's Avatar
United_States
292
Rep
4,697
Posts

Drives: 911, 130is, E39 M5, E36 M3
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Outside Philly

iTrader: (2)

Quote:
Originally Posted by flinchy View Post
read through the thread before saying that i'd suggest

they're 100% guaranteed not 'factory seconds', they're parts that otherwise would have been installed on an M3, no cherry picking, no defects.

That's somewhere within the first few pages in emails with TRW, talks with ECS, multiple other companies/vendors.

they're a part that's taken off the line at random after testing, had the ///M ground off, and sold cheaper without the ///M tax.
You just wrote the exact definition of a factory second.

They aren't taken off the line randomly. They were taken off the line because they aren't up to spec. Just because you aren't aware of how they failed testing doesn't mean that there weren't determined to be not good enough.
__________________
2005 E46 M3 Interlagos/Cinnamon with Sunroof Delete
Appreciate 0