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Old 03-25-2010, 12:07 PM   #132 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Daishi View Post
If youve read the posts on this forum and the g37 forums most are complaints of a horribly designed product that doesnt fit right. Most of their products have horrible fitment and youll see many posts about it if you looked around which leads one to believe they slap parts together. Even tony said that the g3's offered no power over the stock intakes once you have an exhaust on the car and made the car run horrible. Dangerous level of A/F. Im sorry semtex but the only reason you are being so defensive over this is because you spent some of your hard earned money on their inferior products. I have no grudge against you as a person I just hear way too many complaints about stillen. Have you heard any fitment, power, or customer service complaints about Fi? no.. Stillen on the other hand you hear it ALLL the time.
I'm not trying to be defensive, I'm trying to be fair, which I don't think you're being at all. I will be the first to admit that Stillen products are less than perfect and while some of them are great, some have pretty serious issues. The only point I'm trying to make here is that there's a middle ground. Products don't have to be either perfect or complete and utter crap. It doesn't have to be one extreme or another. Are the G3's perfect? Nope. But that doesn't mean we have to automatically go to the opposite extreme and accuse Stillen of doing absolutely no product testing at all, do we? I mean, that's a pretty harsh accusation you're making there. Zero testing? Maybe they didn't test enough. Or maybe their test methodology was flawed. But zero testing? No testing whatsoever? C'mon man, that's just unfair. We don't have to go to such an extreme to offer legitimate criticism of a company and/or product. Let me put it this way. I'm not a big fan of our current President. I think he and his policies have many faults. They are far from perfect. But that imperfection doesn't prompt me to go to the extreme of saying that he is utterly and completely without merit either. That would be disingenuous, IMHO.
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