Reply To: eBay urges garages to use “recycled car parts”

[Mick]

No matter what is said by ebay, the customer or recycling seller. It WILL be the garage ‘s fault, problem and responsibility. It will be argued that as professionals we should be able to see if the item is safe to use , functions correctly and is genuine. We have fitted a LUK clutch from ebay which was supplied by the customer that slipped as soon as any moderate to hard acceleration was required. All of a sudden we were a rubbish garage in eyes . The clutch kit was just slightly more expensive than we could get at trade ! Our usual supplier later informed us that these fake kits are now out there and virtually identical to the real thing and LUK have to look very hard to spot the difference. A bent stub axle was given to a local garage to fit….how hard was the impact that bent that?