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Old Nov 16, 2011 | 10:54 PM
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I started a thread complaining about the poor repos of rocker panels
and thanks to the people at WILLCOX this terrible repo just might be made correctly now.
Help us all and post KNOWN bad ,wrong or just trash repo parts here.
Lets get them right and show our cars with pride.
I will start.

70-77 rocker panels, . bend at rear of rocker is incorrect and dont fit.
confirmed by Willcox.
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Old Nov 17, 2011 | 06:56 AM
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Don't blame willcox it's corvette america that makes most of the parts the seat backs suck too..
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Old Nov 17, 2011 | 09:44 AM
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Just about every repro sucks.
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Old Nov 18, 2011 | 08:50 PM
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Don't blame willcox . . .

He didn't.
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Old Nov 18, 2011 | 09:16 PM
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flex fit front bumper covers suck too, seam lines up flawlessly but area in front of headlights is all jacked up. 10 hrs of body work to fix.
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Old Nov 19, 2011 | 10:04 AM
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We're just trying to get them fixed.. but a solution may be already in the works. I should know more about this maybe by Weds.
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Old Nov 19, 2011 | 11:43 AM
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I suggested a while ago that we somehow put together a database of all of the parts that you can search through. The database would allow users to put information in about their experience with a specific part and the selling vendor and how accurate it was to original as well as how it fit and the quality. For example, you would search parking brake console cover and all of the venders parts would come up that were "rated" by a user. Someone just needs to set up the original database with all of the parts and make it so that users can put comments in like Ebay or Amazon does. Would be great if a programmer could scrape all of the parts information from a vendor site. Probably a decent amount of work but would be a great resource. I won't buy another part from Ecklers ever again due to crappy quality.
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