URO license plate light quality and best vendor to purchase from? Options

[doug_b_928]

It would appear that the early license plate light (914 631 601 00) is NLA. To purchase new it looks like URO is the only option. I did a search and found one negative view of the quality of these lights, but no positive comments either. Can anyone comment on their quality?

Also, Pelican, Stoddard, and Sierra Madre have them, with the latter having a slightly better price at the moment. Is there any preference for dealing with one of these vendors? I've bought from Pelican before, but not the others.

[Mike D.]

George, you sold me this "new" part....

[dr914@autoatlanta.com]

yup silicone mold after we ran our of our originals and before mark make his with metal tooling We put them on many of our cars they at lest worked.

George, you sold me this "new" part....

[RoadGlue]

yup silicone mold after we ran our of our originals and before mark make his with metal tooling We put them on many of our cars they at lest worked.

George, you sold me this "new" part....

George, been following you for years and it's the way you come across in your forum posts that make me only buy your parts when I have no other options.

Why not at least acknowledge that you could have done better, offer to replace the customer's part? The whole, "It works, so what?" attitude is not how you win over new customers. That part is so ugly you should have at the very least warned the customer that it was functional but heavily blemished. Anything else is just fraud. "It's new" implies that it looks like the OEM part.

[dr914@autoatlanta.com]

you are right, would be happy to now that we have Marks part.

Mark is blessed that he can afford all of the tooling for these parts. I cannot and had to fill a need in our shop so had the stacked elbow made long ago from a silicone mold. It was all that was available and worked in a pinch as nothing else was available.
It is not like we are coming out with a great new product but rather trying to make something do until a better solution.
No harm intended, these silicone parts made one at a time cost a bundle each, and there is just not enough demand
Please do not beat me on this, I do the best I can trying to offer every part for the 914.
It is NEVER it worked so what, it is I have no part so what am I going to do. I treat these cars like I own every one of them and do not make parts to get rich but rather fill a need and do it the best I can and can afford. I love these cars and hate to not have a part for them.
We did have a pretty ugly picture of the part before we replaced it with the new part mark made, so each customer knew that they were getting something crude. We actually blew through each one to make sure that it was tightly sealed before sending
I can think of many parts that are needed for the 914 but just cannot afford to make the tooling for such limited quantity.
I continue to restore these cars but am so disappointed when I cannot get the part I need and or in the quality I want. As was in another discussion, even many of the new parts Porsche offers are complete crap now, but they say they are better than nothing the I call and complain. (try fitting some of their rear roll bar chrome, or like mark said their vent window seals. I am embarrassed installing some of that "stuff" on pristine cars.
When we did Brutus, we tried to install as many new factory parts as we could and wasted a lot of hours trying to make some of them work (mark you should be proud to know that we installed a lot of your parts on Brutus (no stacked elbow though)
I want everyone to know as has always been the case here for the last 40 years that all of our parts are fully guaranteed and if you do not like one or cannot use it or ordered by mistake or any other reason, you are welcome to return it for a refund or exchange.

NO ONE GETS STUCK WITH ANYTHING THEY BUY FROM AUTOMOBILE ATLANTA EVER

that is one of the benefits with dealing with a company that has been in business now this year for 40 years George Hussey

yup silicone mold after we ran our of our originals and before mark make his with metal tooling We put them on many of our cars they at lest worked.

George, you sold me this "new" part....

George, been following you for years and it's the way you come across in your forum posts that make me only buy your parts when I have no other options.

Why not at least acknowledge that you could have done better, offer to replace the customer's part? The whole, "It works, so what?" attitude is not how you win over new customers. That part is so ugly you should have at the very least warned the customer that it was functional but heavily blemished. Anything else is just fraud. "It's new" implies that it looks like the OEM part.