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Chinese fairings / parts

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  • 22-07-2018 1:24pm
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    D3V!L
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    I have a little project in mind for my BMW GSA for the winter. I plan on making a spare set of fairings in a different colour to the black original.

    Instead of undoing the good work by my wife and removing the plastic wrap on the original body work I'm thinking of buying a new, second hand or replica set and either painting it or wrapping it.

    After looking around for a while I haven't come across any decent second hand sets, only Chinese reproduction kit. How is the quality of these eBay Chinese stuff these days ? Has anyone recent experience with them ?

    This is one that came up

    https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https://www.ebay.co.uk/ulk/itm/192477685810


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    Del2005
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    All I know is that the quality of spurious parts can vary from OEM standard to worse than a crash damaged part. So do your research, a saving on the part can easily disappear if it doesn't fit correctly and returns to China will be expensive if they even take them.


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    arybvtcw0eolkf
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    I've no experience of their plastics, but my steering damper (Z1000) and my wind defector has been brilliant. And my son replaced a Delkevic can on his old ER6 with a Chinese Akro copy and the engineering on that was sublime.

    I know racers who was using Chinese steering dampers and end can's now.

    Not related to motorbikes, but there are a lot of serious cyclists (yes I'm a cyclist too) are using Chinese carbon frames and saving a packet.


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    decky1
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    guy in Aughrim Co Wicklow always has loads of parts Merlin 040236323


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    Max Headroom
    Registered Users Posts: 7,101 ✭✭✭Max Headroom


    decky1 wrote: »
    guy in Aughrim Co Wicklow always has loads of parts Merlin 040236323


    Dont rembering him saying he won the lotto...............:D

    I got a full set of fireblade fairings from china...they were all sprayed up and fitted perfectly...no issues whatsoever....theyre made from the same moulds that honda used...;)


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