Best Vendor experiences? Options

[mtndawg]

What has been your best vendor experience?

I've had many...

PMB phone discussion (they called me while redoing my brakes) to discuss my exact need and inquired about how I use my car to ensure I have the best braking solution.

Pelican Parts order conversations with people who know and care about cars.

The owner at Tangerine Racing called me once when I ordered 2 window cranks to tell me that he only had one in stock. When he had he 2nd one he overnighted it to me without additional shipping.

914Rubber, they are awesome! They actually make parts when people need them.

[Blue6]

Cool story that I've not shared here on the forum but have told several people about it,
It involved 4 vendors and a friend who all went above and beyond to get me some parts from west coast to east coast.
It was a couple years ago when Eric at PMB was putting together the 5 lug conversion group buy for our cars . I decided that since it all had to come off I would order newly re powder coated trailing arms and a-arms, but needed new busings bearings and all that jazz.
Enter in Bruce Stone- I got the powder coated parts from him, but I needed to get the bearings and hubs put in, and was going to ship all this stuff to Eric Shea.
Eric says he is going to CA for swap meet and would be there so he would pick up all jy stuff from Bruce, which he did, then took all that with him back to Utah-
But wait, it gets better! I was planning on going to Hershey Pennsylvania for the swap meet there and Eric was coming all the way across the country from Utah as well so he offers to bring all these parts for me to Hershey where I would pick them up but as it turns out due to work schedule conflicts I could not make it to Hershey so Eric gives these parts to Scotty B who is going to be there as well . Scotty lives in Richmond Virginia and my friend Bill H 1633 here on the site who lives in Orangeburg South Carolina about an hour for me , was just going up to Scotty's to pick up one of his cars that was getting finished at that time , so my parts went from Bruce Stone in California to Eric Shea in Utah, then to Hershey where Scotty takes them South , & Bill brings them and I picked them up on my way by the next week while traveling up to Columbia!

I have great stories from all vendors here , 914 rubber and Chris Foley - But this story involved all these guys going way out of their way for a fellow teener owner , and are why I can drive my car today with new brakes, suspension , 5 lug conversion etc!!
Thanks Bruce , Eric, Scotty, Bill, Chris, Mark, !,,!!
Many thanks!

Wel said Dr. Phil...This site, community, and vendors, have made 914 life a lot easier. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/cheer.gif)