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      05-24-2008, 10:51 PM   #1
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unlucky mirror caps

Picked up my mirror caps from Way's place.
First one i opened looked great! weave nice and even.... second one however looked $H!T to be honest.
The bad one even has little gaps between the weave that you can see through...
Waiting to hear back from drew, but im pretty sure he should deal with this properly as he was quite good getting all this stuff organised to start off with...just surprised something like this slipped through the bmw quality control...

How did everyone else's CF turn out??

here are some pics... first pic shows the bad one with the scrunched up weave, the second pic shows the good one and how it should be, and the third shows the holes in the weave... you can actually see these holes quite easily in day light.
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      05-24-2008, 11:01 PM   #2
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That's no good.
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      05-24-2008, 11:16 PM   #3
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      05-24-2008, 11:19 PM   #4
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Thats pathetic..How could quality control miss those defects.:iono:
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      05-24-2008, 11:27 PM   #5
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Hmm, not good mate. I'm yet to have a look at mine, will do that now...
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      05-24-2008, 11:50 PM   #6
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That's awful. I'd be wanting replacements.
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      05-24-2008, 11:51 PM   #7
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Ye it sucks... but hopefully it'll get replaced...
also noticed this, there was a white dot on the end of the spoiler, which i thought, fair enough a little chip... looked at it again, and there is actually a strange green line adjacent to it... it seems to be under the resin?
Each by itself doesnt really bother me... and i hate to nit pick, but having two together in the same area seems to multiply their effects.
it was quite hard to get a good photo of it, but its quite easy to pick up in natural light.
first pic is of white dot, you can actually see the green line above and to the right... and the second pic is of the green line itself.
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      05-25-2008, 12:36 AM   #8
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incidentally, the cf stuff is made by hand and takes two weeks to manufacture so i guess no two examples would be alike
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      05-25-2008, 12:41 AM   #9
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damn! i hope mine dont look like that. Im sure Drew will sort you out!
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      05-25-2008, 12:50 AM   #10
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I've also noticed some inconsistencies in my mirror covers. On both, there is an area of about 1 square inch where the weave is bunched up and thus looks bad in the right light. I also noticed a difference in the colouring when comparing the mirror covers to the rear spoiler.

Drew, what's the story? Have we been supplied with replica parts rather than original BMW Performance?
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      05-25-2008, 01:18 AM   #11
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Hey cozza, could you post up pics of the 1 inch squares which are bunched up?
I doubt their knock offs (well i hope not for the price we paid), i just reckon we got slipped some duds
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      05-25-2008, 04:33 AM   #12
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Are you completely sure those parts are original BMW and not replicas?, Because by the look of those photos, either BMW are doing a piss poor job with quality control or those are china made replicas, I hope it is not like that and that all those problems could be sort out.
If any of the dealer have this CF in stock you can take yours and compare.
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      05-25-2008, 05:20 AM   #13
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i surely hope theyre not rip offs...
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      05-25-2008, 05:56 AM   #14
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The mirrors I saw the other night on the AW car at the Bib Stillwell launch looked OK. Also pictures of the mirrors on various threads here appear to be ok. Hope Drew hasn't sent some copies to you guys.
You guys should ask Dan from United BMW who appears to be selling a lot of mirror covers whether he has experienced any of these defects.
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Not a good thing! I hope it all gets sorted. I wouldn't want to have received those!!
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      05-25-2008, 07:15 AM   #16
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Hey guys, first up, let's not start accusing Drew of sending us imitations. This sort of accusation can get out of control very easily. I had a look at mine, and it had the same issue. But if you think about how CF is done, then I don't think this is avoidable given the shape and angle of the mirror cap (which doesn't show up well on pic either). CF is merely a sheet drapped over the mold underneath and fired up in the oven to a very high temp so that it stick. Think about it in a different way Jono, if you were to try stick a sheet of patterned sticker over the mirror cap, would you have been able to get a even patterned? Not possible.

As for the spoiler, I can't quite picture what you are talking about. I will check mine to see if there are issues.
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      05-25-2008, 07:36 AM   #17
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Deff not accusing Drew of sending fakes! sorry if it came out that way.. when i say got slipped some duds, was referring to BMW just being lazy and letting some pass quality control. i think drew's been great in organising everything.
I understand that there would be quite a bit of variation from part to part, especially with the curved mirror cap, but the difference between the two i have is quite significant... Those holes are quite noticable, and the good one just seems pretty damn good, so they must be able to get a decent coverage...
with regards to the spoiler, its prob nothing that could have been prevented... two minor things just so happen to be in the same area... bit hard to describe..... it almost looks like a piece of grass is in their....
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      05-25-2008, 07:12 PM   #18
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My Dealer supplied both mirror caps and spoiler and appear fine, can't see any defects at all.
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      05-26-2008, 03:48 AM   #19
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Here's a pic of the mirror cap in question. It's not difficult to see the discrepency.

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      05-26-2008, 04:39 AM   #20
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By the looks of the photos here, not try to offend anyone, but I'd say they are hand-layed........copies.

Fairly easy to make a mold of the real thing. The hard part is copying it right. Hence the defects. Particularly the one showing "holes".
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wow! that is dodgy... much better photo. I'd want a refund, but thats me
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I just had a good look at mine again. One looks better than the other. One of them had some bunching up and the other much less so. But to be honest I am not too fussed. But if you guys want to return/refund or whatever, I am going along with it. Have you guys also noticed that the other Performance parts are made in Germany whereas this is made in Austria? Btw has anyone contacted Drew about this?
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