240 strut mounts

240 · 2018-04-05T07:56:57+00:00

I am very happy with these https://kaplhenke.com/collections/240/products/240-spherical-offset-strut-mounts There were some Kmac fully adjustable ones in A...

240

You mean 2 strut mounts, or 2 sets of mounts?
Will confirm exact cost once I get the exact details from Ben and so on, but it will probably be approaching $300 for the set, once the exchange rate is taken into account.
I expect they will be here before September.
I wouldn't necessarily need the money in full until they actually arrive in Australia (I think that'd simplify things on the off chance that something went wrong with the order).

GingerNinja

I've had orders with Ben drag on for months with no updates. Make sure he's got the things you need in stock before you order.

240

Yeah, I've been emailing him to make sure.
Hes certainly not the best when it comes to communication, kind of a shame since we pay a premium price for his products, but I guess there isn't really an alternative!

alphax

Ben's customer service and attitude is the worst I have ever encountered internationally for any car parts, ever.

nugget_940

alphax;c-140669 wroteBen's customer service and attitude is the worst I have ever encountered internationally for any car parts, ever.

Is there some backstory on that? I saw on facebook when I shared your street machine article to TB they commented on it...

Major Ledfoot

240;140652 wroteYou mean 2 strut mounts, or 2 sets of mounts?

Two mounts - i.e. 1 set. Thanks.

alphax

nugget_940;c-140689 wrote
alphax;c-140669 wroteBen's customer service and attitude is the worst I have ever encountered internationally for any car parts, ever.
Is there some backstory on that? I saw on facebook when I shared your street machine article to TB they commented on it...

The brief back story is that I ordered a bunch of parts on ocean freight. I spent months asking for the vessel details and none was forthcoming. Only later I found why. He sent the parts via a friend of a friend (without my knowledge or consent) and the shipment only left port many many weeks after they were supposed to.

He could have just been honest about it but instead decided to lead me on for months, providing no answers about when the parts left port or their whereabouts at any point in time.

I guess I had to deal with the shipping problem and his questionable customer service, so I feel burned more than the average guy. If you just had to deal with the questionable customer service and have parts shipped via Fedex or similar, it probably wouldn't be so bad.

ramrod

Let this be a warning to others.

peterwgpa

Just be careful to monitor cost of items in package and new $1000 dollar limits for GST and all other charges that customs want to slap down

I joined with another Volvo nut to source some parts and to save freight we bundled them together but the combined value slid past the $1000 mark (remember $1000AUD is only $750USD approx) and it has been lost in customs hellhole for 2 months. First parcel 1 of 2 arrived in under 5 days. Other has been stuck in system ever since and we have taken to getting a customs agent involved to try and sort and get delivery of parts

If we had known what we do now we would have just imported items separately and payed the extra $50 freight.

So be warned gents to check on the rules

240

As of 1 July, the GST applies to everything - not just goods over $1000 - so it doesn't really make a difference now.
Only thing I'm worried about is being taxed twice, if the overseas vendor charges the GST and Customs also charge it... but I assume there are processed in place to prevent that.

peterwgpa

Not up on rules but be aware that customs duty also kicks in at different levels by the looks of it so if you can stay under that magic value level regardless of GST happy days.

If not customs will be calling for their slice of the pie and by the looks of it Australia Post has now taken over parts of this role so its just one big cluster f

jamesinc

Customs aren't changing their processes. The new GST relies upon sellers being registered for GST, which I don't really expect businesses like Kaplhenke to do (would he even turn over more than $75k annually in Australian sales?)

Some of the larger businesses like FCP are now applying GST at checkout.

Australia Post is only involved when it is used as a forwarding service, e.g. ShopMate. That's presumably to stop you from using a forwarding service to avoid the GST.

Edit: if you have family in the US or Europe, they would be the best forwarding service to use now.

jared244

Hi guys. I picked up some of the Kaplhenke BNESelect offset strut mounts, and the luxe bearings recently. Unfortunately didn’t come across the proposed group but early enough.

Anyway a couple of things have come up.

1st there was a machining error with the luxe bearing to strut top seat. The inner bore wasn’t machined quite large enough to sit onto the strut top. It was only a small amount out and I was able to enlarge with some dremeling.

jared244

Second problem, and this may be difficult to explain, but I’m using a bump stop which sits at the top of the strut shaft, and the dust boot attaches to it. The shape of the bump stop, and the shape of the underside of the spring seat means that the top of the stop can’t meet the underside of the strut top bearing as it sits above the spring seat now due to the luxe bearing and adapter.

It’s as if the bump stop needs to be one that just grips the shaft and can sit below the spring seat somewhere, or not run a bump stop and dust boot at all.

I’m going to solve the problem with a few washers. I imagine a different, more pointy bump stop may work also.

I’ll post a few pics of this later.

Other than that it’s a nice kit that will certainly be longer lasting than the rubber strut tops available at the moment.

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