no i did not purchase these directly from AMD, its little more difficult to buy directly from them when your in canada. i bought them from a major parts distributor that sells there brands. but say i had of bought the good mark one, would they have still sent me this one? i don't get how or why they would do that when the prices are so different
What the heck? Why my post get duplicated but shortened... oops. What happens trying to post from a phone i gues...
very interesting, makes sense though. so basically best bet is to still buy AMD, as there quality control is far better, and far less chance of any wrong or incorrect panels. makes sense, i can see why you would pay a higher premium for that.
Yup. Thats the consensus ive read anyways. As car as i know goodmark is the only one licensing off amd. If someones going to see it, like a quarter or its a pain to get it to fit if its too far off like a wheelhouse or inner fender go with AMD. If its easy to trim and fit like a trunk extension the seconds goodmark has is more then sufficient.
Haha. Its so true. My family's company makes electron beams for processing and crosslinking plastic, like wire insulation. Its an incredibly tiny industry, basically 3-4 real players then a variety of chinese or russian knockoffs that we dont really consider competition yet, at least No one ever comes to us saying "well we are considering you or xyz in china" any ways While having friendly lunch beers with the biggest and up and coming chinese company's rep at a wire and cable show, he let it slip that when they get an invoice through china they paint their machine grey and red. If they get an invoice through belgium (the main other major competitor to us) they paint it white and green. So for the past 5 or so years our biggest competitor has actually been having an up and coming yet still no name outside of china company building their machines for them. Which might be why weve been getting more business because their quality's dropped a bit, hmm....
Great advice!, much appreciated donny
I agree with you, when we first took on this project, we realized we can get all the parts, its just a matter of paying dearly for them to get them here. After some searching, i to realized that keystone distributes AMD and good mark parts as well as some other bits. I'm in the auto sales business, so i have some good relationships with some of the part stores in my area. I used the keystone website https://ecat.crosscanadaparts.com/base/ and login as a guest to get all of the good mark part numbers, and the AMD website to get all those part numbers. Then i just gave everything I wanted to a friend at the part store and said i need a SOLID FAVOUR! He ordered it for me through his store to keystone. I could not believe how much less the parts were than what i was expecting to pay originally. We were kind of thinking on doing the same strategy, good mark where we can, AMD were we have to. Although the rear valance and tail panel i just ordered were good mark, and I'm going to test and see how they measure up just for my own satisfaction, i can return them if i don't touch them or cut them. The price for those in AMD was extremely different, so i just want to make sure that i'm over paying for good reason.
