HQ Sandman/GTS repro front guards

[Valencia]

I cant understand how they cant get it right with all the technology they have got today
here is an original one copy that exactly how fricken hard can it be its metal ffs

[thatotherguy]

looking at the photo the door looks too low and it probably looks bad because the guard is a different colour .If you have a look at any old original holden the panel gaps were not good

[HK1837]

I cant understand how they cant get it right with all the technology they have got today
here is an original one copy that exactly how fricken hard can it be its metal ffs

The company that got the HK-HT guards done got the RH ones good, but stuffed up the left side - they got the holes in the wrong places!

I think you'll find a lot of NOS that has been available for a while now were from containers full of rejects that GMH auctioned off. They were rejected parts, and rejected for a reason ie off-spec. Guess what some of the stuff that is reproed has been copied off? Makes sense to use NOS doesn't it? I think most stuff is sorted out before it is done, but I think a few made this mistake. The best NOS stuff to buy is gear that comes out of old dealerships or been stored for many years.

[mcdvi]

Has anyone had experience with the guy in NSW that presses the original guards , I have been thinking of trying that.

[rallyvan]

[QUOTE=Glacier 73;59516]I cant understand how they cant get it right with all the technology they have got today
here is an original one copy that exactly how fricken hard can it be its metal ffs[/QUOTE

I can. At the last place I worked we used a chrome plater in SA to hard chrome the raw material we used. They had massive chrome tanks (up to 4m long) that would fit the car companies press dies in. They said it was not uncommon for the dies to come back a second time to have more chrome added so they could get the "spring back" correct on a panel. I thought this odd but when talking to a cousin who is a mathematics expert at Xmas function a few years previous I asked what he was doing. He explained he was working on equations that would be used in software that Ford was having developed that would predict spring back for pressed body panels. So if someone like Ford Motor Co are still hit and miss what chance has a aftermarket parts producer in Taiwan got!