carmate.com

RichardB · Post by **RichardB** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 4:00 am

Any of you use carmate.com? Ive asked them if they will ship over to the UK. Im interested in a couple of bodykits they do.

Whats the quality of their kits like? Are they their own kits or do they buy them in? As if they wont ship them I will need to find someone else that will.

Post by **I8A4RE** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 5:13 pm

I have only heard bad things, like improper fitment, warping, and divets.

Post by **Bennoz** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 5:16 pm

I've had 50/50 comments. Some good, some bad. At least their customer service is a little better than Jay.

RalliartBoy · Post by **RalliartBoy** » Sun Jul 06, 2008 10:12 pm

Bought a fair bit from them.

Let's just say the products are adequate and actually are functional if you are willing to modify them to fit properly.

Certainly wouldn't be paying to be importing them into England though, try to find someone more local.

Aren't FTO's quite popular in England ? There is nothing available local ?

RichardB · Post by **RichardB** » Sun Jul 06, 2008 10:44 pm

RalliartBoy wrote:Bought a fair bit from them.

Let's just say the products are adequate and actually are functional if you are willing to modify them to fit properly.

Certainly wouldn't be paying to be importing them into England though, try to find someone more local.

Aren't FTO's quite popular in England ? There is nothing available local ?

cheers, there was a rear bumper that they do that no one else seems to do.

Post by **aza013** » Sun Jul 06, 2008 11:16 pm

sounds just like your Vented Bonnets

still trying to find a place that will make one

sublime19 · Post by **sublime19** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 12:21 am

RalliartBoy wrote:
Let's just say the products are adequate and actually are functional if you are willing to modify them to fit properly.

Not worth taking the risk. Most likely it'll be fine, but a good chance something will be off, and you wouldn't send it back for an exchange/refund cos the postage will you a bit.

Personally had a bad experience with a rear bar when my car was rear ended. Bought a bar, took it to my smash repairer who's very reputable, he showed me that there's no way the bar's going to fit, unless they force it on and it'll look clearly out of place, saw this myself. Also quality of the bar was sub-par, might just have been that particular one, I dunno. But definately wouldn't buy any kits from there, probably just a bonnet if anything.

RalliartBoy · Post by **RalliartBoy** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 10:41 am

sublime19 wrote: But definately wouldn't buy any kits from there, probably just a bonnet if anything.

No, don't do that.

My carbon fibre bonnet for my FTO was from there and it was not the best quality or fit......looked tacky until i had it sprayed and fixed up.

sublime19 · Post by **sublime19** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 7:49 pm

RalliartBoy wrote:
sublime19 wrote: But definately wouldn't buy any kits from there, probably just a bonnet if anything.
No, don't do that.

My carbon fibre bonnet for my FTO was from there and it was not the best quality or fit......looked tacky until i had it sprayed and fixed up.

Alrite, in that case:

Things not safe to buy from carmate:
Kits
Bonnets

GR8FTO · Post by **GR8FTO** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 2:41 pm

hey, i brought the CM4 front bar from them, i wish io hadn't though....it didn't fit,put one side of the bar on, and the other side of the bar wasn't even close, you really had to flex it to make it fit, but i dont think the screws would of held it in place), i didn't want to send it back, so i ended up modifiying it myself to make it fit, chopped away a few bits and refibreglass a few areas.

Tippin · Post by **Tippin** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 6:12 pm

GR8FTO wrote:hey, i brought the CM4 front bar from them, i wish io hadn't though....it didn't fit,put one side of the bar on, and the other side of the bar wasn't even close, you really had to flex it to make it fit, but i dont think the screws would of held it in place), i didn't want to send it back, so i ended up modifiying it myself to make it fit, chopped away a few bits and refibreglass a few areas.

hehe

, i had my heart set on that front bar. But then i heard all these bad things about car mate

Anywayz, im looking towards getting a bozz speed front now

sublime19 · Post by **sublime19** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 6:28 pm

GR8FTO wrote:it didn't fit,put one side of the bar on, and the other side of the bar wasn't even close, you really had to flex it to make it fit, but i dont think the screws would of held it in place

This is exactly what the case was with my rear bar.

The guy hung up the first time I called about it after claiming to put me on hold so he can speak to his manager.

I went in store and after a lot of convincing to get me a refund I managed to get 80% of my money back. They charged me 20% restocking fee even though I only had it for 3-4 hours.

Sugar · Post by **Sugar** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 6:30 pm

i think the bigger issue is .. richard why wont you ship bodykits to us

RichardB · Post by **RichardB** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 4:49 am

dB wrote:i think the bigger issue is .. richard why wont you ship bodykits to us

Ive not really looked into it or looked into how much the insurace would cost.

FtoSam · Post by **FtoSam** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 7:51 am

www.dmdtheimage.com

top quality bodykits mate... don't know if they'll ship to you though... but i know lots of people who go through them and love the work... (just dont get it sprayed there)

mine unsprayed:

RichardB · Post by **RichardB** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 8:07 am

I already do all the ones they do

I wanted a rear spoiler with splitters built in

Tippin · Post by **Tippin** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 3:15 pm

hey GR8FTO, can u put up a pic of your CM4 style bar fitted please

GR8FTO · Post by **GR8FTO** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 12:29 pm

tippin here you go
<a href="http://s222.photobucket.com/albums/dd23 ... 008619.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd23 ... 008619.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

GR8FTO · Post by **GR8FTO** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 1:16 pm

here is front on pic

sublime19 · Post by **sublime19** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 1:36 pm

GR8FTO wrote:here is front on pic

<a href="http://s222.photobucket.com/albums/dd23 ... 008612.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd23 ... 008612.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

That looks like it doesn't fit on at all, almost looks like it'll fall off any minute