TRD Parts.

[2jayzgte]

Coran, you have to remember that most of the parts you got were through backdoor channels as favours. I remember at times a hell of a lot of arm twisting and talking going on to get those deals at manager level. Most margins were stripped from them and were only done due to you being a good long term customer who bought in other customers. So those other customers offset the losses or rather the lack of profit made in sales to you. In other words the promotional effect of you, and your car were factored in when sorting deals. When they decided to no longer discount TRD that would have changed.

Also as mentioned changes in currancy, everything is more exspensive now.
Hell when I was selling TRD springs left right and centre Kings and Dobi's were about $350-400rrp a set, and TEIN were about $450.
Now dobi are like $500 and TEIN mostly $600+!
unless you put some mags and tyres on tick at mag and turbo!

Yep alright you got me there were alot of contra deals done for me....lol...lol..

But in my defence I did help move alot of Supra parts throughout NZ and Aus for your parts dept..The person I used to deal with at Revvy's old dealership did however look after us exceedingly well and still does to this day.The real discounts were when you used to be able to get Sea freight pricing which in alot of case's were upto 50-60% or Toyota RRP.

True TRD man alot of this arguement is over price and I suppose with this in mind the addage you get what you pay for comes into play.As The TRD product is a hassle free install and a quality product.

But still it surprises me the extent of discount given per having the contact we did versus going through the parts help desk and the accessories dept at TNZ.

[FLAWLES]

to answer that
if you talk to three different pple you will get three different answers/prices

from my point of view/industry pple who price parts from three differnt places ( be it in the same franchise if you will ), then go for the cheaper parts........only to find out they cant get them at said cheap price and whinge non stop piss me right off........hell of a lot of time wasting imo
( not trying to get at anyone here im just saying so plse dont get your bak up here )

oem go fast parts arnt to badly priced man, look at the lsd's for instance they havnt changed there retail price in well over 4 yrs, and are on par with the likes of cusco etc etc

what you have to look out for are nz shops that bring in aftermarket go fast parts and sell them over the counter ( some not all ).......now there is something to have a go about

i could rant to you about a shop who quoted me well over 2g for my cusco sway bars.........but im not going to

[TRD Man]

just my two cents, my car has alot of TRD/TOM'S items in it, 80% of them specialy brought in for me ex tnz, and the prices that i got charged where very very fair, and worked out cheaper than importing them ex japan myself

That's great and exactly as it should be when dealing with the agent.

[FLAWLES]

in saying taht TRD man can you still get your hands on TOM'S stuff?

[TRD Man]

We've never actually relinquished our agency but we haven't really dealt with them for a couple of years. Principly because they stopped producing the items we sold strongly and wanted us to push their range of very expensive wheels almost to the exclusion of everything else. So they've probably dropped us.

I could contact them if there's something you're after.

[FLAWLES]

im just wondering if they still do some of the jzx100 range of suspension parts, and a price, as the part i am after is stupidly rare and when it comes up on yahoo jp its gone within seconds
i.e the tom's x540 chaser

you have a pm sir