Replica body Kit?

haddy98

Hey guys. I just want to ask your opinions about replica kits. I'm planning to get a replica body kit. What do you think about it? The ori is way too expensive for me. What is the difference between the replica and the ori?

Thanks in advanced

370Z JT

There's two point of view

1. Save money until I can afford it and buy the authentic to support the mfr.

2. Save money in my pocket and buy the replicas. I don't care about the mfr.

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docaam

if the replica is nice quality which is tested as Amuse then go ahead for it, I am really happy with the savings I made and spent those on performance modss

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TypeOne

Support the industry and the companies that are innovating new parts and ideas.

Don't support the companies that find new ways of copying stuff.

kenchan

^^ this.

KamiSpeed

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docaam

You guys can buy the originals as loosing one sale on replica wont hurt anything for these companies. And IMO in the end of the day its a Nissan so not worth spending 10% of car value on a bodykit, rest performance parts I agree should be ok good quality which are aleast on mine

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370Ztune

The problem is they don't just lose profit from one sale, it's more like 20, 30, 40 or even more in some cases; it all starts with just 1.

Regarding the 10% of value comment, does that logic extend to other parts as well because Work Wheels aren't cheap!

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TypeOne

If you can't afford to buy nice parts(*regardless of what type of car you drive*) then you shouldn't buy anything. (in my opinion, of course)

I know guys with Honda Civic's that save their money and spend it on a $1500 front bumper, just because they want high quality, nice stuff.

Quality is quality, regardless of what you are buying for. I bought a $50 iPhone case yesterday because the $10 case was a cheap piece of china crap. (even though they looked the same)

Selling or buying fake, copied parts will only HURT our industry. Obviously some companies get offended when this fact is brought up because they try to make it seem ok.

The argument "hey, who needs to pay all this money for the same parts" isn't going to work. You pay for so much more when you buy an authentic part.

If you (and not you personally) have a successful company selling knock offs, why don't you try to be original and let other people copy you? Tell me how that goes.

Econ

we just need someone in North America to step up and manufacter original kits. dont understand why we need to wait for the japanese to create products.

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kenchan

yep, i support original designs US or Japan.. but we've seen fitment from stillen with their original bits so far...

Econ

im tired, and dont feel like reading all that, so ill assume it is dilligent.

....well said, rep for you!

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TypeOne

Sorry for the rant... it's a dear subject to me. When your livelihood depends on it, you'd have a passion to fight it I guess.

Ztoon

I support the JDM guys that design and craft the originals. Anybody that's seen my car knows there's not much Nissan o.e.m. left on the exterior.
After paying top dollar for everything from Amuse, Mines, Seibon, etc., I ordered side skirts from Shine, @ 1/4 the price, cause I had to see to believe. I was ready to ship them back if they weren't spot on.
Sheeit! There's got to be some price adjustments from Japan for the North American market for them to survive, as these replicas are of the same quality with better fitment!
Just economic reality.

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Raizon

I wonder how many people would actually buy the authentic Amuse kit if no replica exist in this world. I can't imagine it being a whole lot more then they have sold now.

I bet most people would never even consider getting a body kit if they had to spend $6k+ on any authentic kit so even if replicas doesn't exist, JDM wouldn't necessarily be getting that much more orders on their kit.

Buy a replica wheel and they will eventually find out how bad they are versus the authentic wheel. But when replica kits are getting same or better fitments than the authentic kit, then its even harder to justify spending more on the real kit.

Like most people said, pricing needs to be more reasonable in this economy or its too hard for most people to justify spending that much money on a kit.

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