Dear forum
My name is Christoph, I am the Sales & Marketing Director from Group Harrington.
I came across your thread organizing a group buy of Porsche 914 stainless steel bumpers from PTT. I would like to take this opportunity to let you know about our 914 bumpers and to straighten things out with the origin of PTT claim’s on this particular product.
Harrington Group has been offering stainless steel bumpers since 2003. To this day, we are offering over 300 types of bumpers for 58 makes of classic cars. We started offering Porsche 914 bumpers since 2005. We have invested heavily in a proper steel stamping mould for this product. Our product has been tried and test fit by 914 Porsche specialists in the UK, and since, has been sold widely all around the world including in the US.
PTT is actually one of our former production workers who stole some of our reproduction bumpers to use as pattern and since then set up in competition with us. I don’t want to say too much about him, but I feel that I should address a couple of things:
PTT DOES NOT use original bumpers for reproduction– he is using our replicas as patterns. You can clearly see by looking at his website and ours, that we produce pretty much all bumpers he produces, plus around 200 additional types. Please check out our website www.groupharrington.com where you can find our complete range.
The most important difference is that, unlike us, PTT DOES NOT press his bumpers, every single bumper he offers is hand-made, made in a little shed in the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City.
He also DOES NOT test fit the bumpers before he offers them. We on the other hand have a stringent quality control and testing team. All our bumpers are produced according to original patterns. They have been provided by specialists who confirmed us perfect fit. The bumpers are also test fitted by specialists and only if they give their final GO we launch them. All our bumpers are pressed using proper moulds and trimmed and checked using exact jigs. This explains the positive feedback on the 914world forum about our bumpers.
When I saw the photo below on your forum, I was shocked to realize that this photo was taken from OUR storage section where we keep our faulty pressed bumpers and other faulty parts in OUR FACTORY.
Apart from making bumpers, we also produce half-scaled junior cars. I can proof to you that the picture was taken from our storage because this is where we keep the faulty steering wheels for our junior cars too.
You can find many more pictures of the range of our junior cars produced here.
http://groupharrington.com/en/page/12/junior-cars.html Also pictures of our 914 bumpers here.
http://groupharrington.com/en/part/74/pors...-6-bumpers.html .
Picture below is one section of our factory with stamping press machine for bumpers. And toy cars production at the far end.
You can see from all the pictures above that PTT has somehow bribed one of our workers to take pictures, to steal the faulty bumpers and to sell to them in the hope that they would fix them and to resell to you.
The bumpers PTT promised to deliver to you are made by our factory from the mould we paid a lot of money for. This is not fair at all. This act is equivalent of stealing.
I would like to bring to your attention that if he had promised to deliver the bumpers to you, this delivery will be the first and the last one from him, not to mention that there will be no guaranty that they can make correct bumpers that fit. He does not have the original bumpers on hands to even know what the correct profile and form of the bumpers is. The fact that 914 bumpers fit very snuggest to the car body makes it one of the most difficult bumpers to produce. It requires precision. PTT doesn’t even know how difficult that is to make sure the light holes on the front bumper have to be the exact fit. He has never tested the 914 bumpers… so needless to say, getting a group buy from him, you would run the risk of bumpers not fitting.
However, as you made the deal with PTT already, and we do not want our bumpers to be sold by him,
we will match his price for this group buy. Please let me know your thoughts.
With us you will deal with native English and German speaking sales and customer care staff. We as a company have been going for more than 15 years. We produce a lot more than just bumpers. We produce interiors in both leather and vinyl, rubber parts, cast metal parts composite parts, glass parts, plastic parts, etc. We also restore cars and scooters; build half sized classic cars for children. In fact, my boss owns quite a few classic cars which have been lovingly restored. Ultimately, with us, you are dealing with classic car enthusiasts that know about crucial points in the production of classic car parts! PTT on the other side is just in this business for money and has no idea about classic cars, a crucial point when supplying parts if you ask me!
Should you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact me.
Best regards
Christoph