stop buying fake sh^t!

[McGyver]

^wow, that escalated quickly

[bataangpinoy]

fake you say? what about your girlfriend and her fake tits? I bought her with a bottle of cheap champagne

[Cronopoulos]

you failed

[AirplaneBuilder]

I bought knockoff M pedals for my E30 for $50 new, is my engine going to blow up now? Should i get rid of them and pay $500 for real ac shnitzer pedals instead?

well you're talking about two different products...the ACS pedals don't have the M emblem on them....but if you had ebay ACS, then yes you should have gotten rid of them to get the real things.

I knew it! I will destroy my fake $50 dollar aluminum pedals instantly and spend the $500 on other aluminum pedals which are "authentic" made in fear that car car will break down! It all makes perfect sense now!

[delatlanta1281]

hmmm interdasting....Thanks fellas. Droppin knowledge on the uneducated.

How could OP (or anyone) think this would go any other way?
I feel like starting a thread named "stop posting shit people should already know", but, alas, 90% of R3V would collapse in on itself. :up:

[ohthejosh]

hmmm interdasting....Thanks fellas. Droppin knowledge on the uneducated.

[delatlanta1281]

Performance parts will fail. Knock off performance parts will/should fail at a higher rate. This isn't a fake pedal or sticker debate, it's a "you're a dummy" thread.
OP, your friend?
He's a dummy.

[slammin.e28]

Ohh damn it makes sense now that it's called a wasteGATE and it got stuck. Learned something new. Also correct me if I am wrong but isn't 30lbs of boost like excessive? It sounds like a lot to me.

Depends on where you measure it at, how the engine it built to handle it, etc, etc.

[ohthejosh]

I know you're trying to play devils advocate, but if a wastegate gets stuck closed, then it has failed.

People will always be willing to buy cheap junk just because it's cheap and looks almost the same. I've been down that road enough times to know better. I don't have the time to mess around redoing things more than once because I wanted to save $100 on a part.

hell as it is, I have boxes and boxes of genuine parts I haven't used yet because I don't have the time to do anything with them.

Ohh damn it makes sense now that it's called a wasteGATE and it got stuck. Learned something new. Also correct me if I am wrong but isn't 30lbs of boost like excessive? It sounds like a lot to me.

[acolella76]

That's really weird that that happened because 1) I've never heard of eBay shit breaking and 2) I've never heard of 240 kids using cheap parts on their cars. Are you sure you didn't just make this all up?

[nando]

So the ebay part on your friends car DIDNT break. The rest of the engine was what broke?

Not being sarcastic just not very knowledgeable on turbos and how they are setup, but when you say the wastegate 'stuck', I am assuming it was intact where as the head/block blew?

If that is the case, I would argue that the ebay part was one hell of a buy and your buddy was to blame for not knowing the limits of the car.

I know you're trying to play devils advocate, but if a wastegate gets stuck closed, then it has failed.

People will always be willing to buy cheap junk just because it's cheap and looks almost the same. I've been down that road enough times to know better. I don't have the time to mess around redoing things more than once because I wanted to save $100 on a part.

hell as it is, I have boxes and boxes of genuine parts I haven't used yet because I don't have the time to do anything with them.

[kway]

How about titling this thread "Why not to buy fake shit", relay your friend's (stupid) story as a buyer beware, and let people use their own judgement. To issue a commandment of "stop buying fake shit!", no matter how you try to justify it, is irritating.

[spike68]

Wait......ebay sells fake shit?






!!!!

[ohthejosh]

So the ebay part on your friends car DIDNT break. The rest of the engine was what broke?

Not being sarcastic just not very knowledgeable on turbos and how they are setup, but when you say the wastegate 'stuck', I am assuming it was intact where as the head/block blew?

If that is the case, I would argue that the ebay part was one hell of a buy and your buddy was to blame for not knowing the limits of the car.

[slammin.e28]

If I'm going to buy shit, I'm going to buy real shit. Fuck that shit that don't stank!