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dfvadr
20-10-2003, 09:33 PM
dont no if they have moved or not but there place at lansvale is closed down an up for lease
Dude...
www.carmate.com.au
FRONT PAGE!
They are in villawood now
sik astina
21-10-2003, 07:22 PM
about carmate, mate got a kit for his Mx6 and the front bar was a mess. big gaps and didnt line up. fixed with alot of modin tho.
just a word of warning
-Mick
yeah i heard a few bad things 2... put me off getting the c-west kit
dfvadr
21-10-2003, 07:46 PM
hey mick thats what i have herd about a lot off there kits
yeah i had a few probs with them aswell with an alarm i got from them and i bought a rear wing from them and it was cracked so i had to get it fixed
wiredone
22-10-2003, 10:42 PM
After spending so much time down at the workshop, i can tell you from experience...
As we do bodykits, bodykit repairs and many other things incuding custom fireglass and carbon fibre dashs and wings....
Nearly all the cracked skirts, front bars and wings that have come from carmate you would be amazed... everything has pits, dimples, unclear lines and god forbid you get your kit painted and fitted there they will leave runs everywhere, pop rivet or sikaflex it to the body and hope you dont notice...
i will for the point of the thread explain one of our customers cars from last week:
Car: 94 lancer with carmate wide body guards, bonnet, evo head lights, and evo front bar
The car came in... bodykit was 2 months old. The Front bar had stress fractured right along the top of the bar. the wide body guards, the fact that they didnt even meet or match each other as far as lines, had been sikaflexed onto the side of the body with around 1/2 a tube of sikaflex!!! took about 3 hours to take them all off!
Then came the bonnet, it had warped so far that the you could no longer open it!
On removing the bonnet to repair it we discovered the whole front bar was held on with not 6 not 4 but 2 screws.. youd think itd come off on the freeway...lol and then the fact that the lights did not even suite the line of the car...
i will stop there... but this was all just last week... not a story that has gone around the bloack and back...
I usually dont bag out companies for there products because cheap products are made cheaply... but for the price carmate charges for most stuff it just doesnt pass. Nearly everything they sell is a mould of a mould of a mould of a mould etc.
If you going to make your car look mad with a good bodykit... one piece of advice... you get what you pay for... the guy selling, painting, and fitting the kit doesnt have to drive around in it everyday... the saying "its not my car" may have flowed around their workshop a few too many times...
long msg... but had the strong feelings, had to contribute... just my 2c
NOTE: if you want to buy a bodykit and like carmates kits, by all means go with you own decision, mine was just my opinion... :wink:
Astinadroxycuts
29-09-2009, 07:02 PM
Yea not the best for kits My friend returned his due to the condition it was installed in
project.r.racing
29-09-2009, 07:17 PM
wow way to bring up a 6 year old thread. lol
Cosmo Dude
29-09-2009, 08:49 PM
wow way to bring up a 6 year old thread. lol
It's not six years old... well not for another three weeks. :p
geez digging up the past, this thread is ancient!
Astinadroxycuts
29-09-2009, 10:51 PM
lol i googled carmate n saw this thread
myastina98
29-09-2009, 11:10 PM
why u guys always go to carmate if u know its not good how about u try
xracing.com.au its located at smithfield
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