My mate has been told that the bloke that was making the orders and organising deliveries is no longer with the company (ie given the boot). She could not give him an order delivery date....
Read into that what you will, but it doesn't look overly good from here :x
has anyone gotten 1 of these yet?
good idea, but i don't want to lose my $$$$
or wait forever
I spoke to one of the salesmen at the Perth 4WD show on the weekend. I told him that there was a lot of interest in the product but their reputation had been tarnished by poor supplies etc.
His explanation was that initially they had started with the intention doing the whole thing here in Australia - design it and build it here. They got about three quarters of the way down the track and found it would cost around $1200-1500 to have it made here. :shock:
They then had to reassess the whole thing and basically had to start from scratch again, so now it costs around $549 courtesy of China. He told me the first shipment of 250 sold out straight away, the second shipment of 250 is almost sold out and they are close to ordering another 280.
It still looks like a good piece of kit, but at $549 I'm going to have to do a lot of convincing the boss that its needed, particularly as it would be the 5th fridge slide I would have bought home.
has anyone gotten 1 of these yet?
good idea, but i don't want to lose my $$$$
or wait forever
I spoke to one of the salesmen at the Perth 4WD show on the weekend. I told him that there was a lot of interest in the product but their reputation had been tarnished by poor supplies etc.
His explanation was that initially they had started with the intention doing the whole thing here in Australia - design it and build it here. They got about three quarters of the way down the track and found it would cost around $1200-1500 to have it made here. :shock:
They then had to reassess the whole thing and basically had to start from scratch again, so now it costs around $549 courtesy of China. He told me the first shipment of 250 sold out straight away, the second shipment of 250 is almost sold out and they are close to ordering another 280.
It still looks like a good piece of kit, but at $549 I'm going to have to do a lot of convincing the boss that its needed, particularly as it would be the 5th fridge slide I would have bought home.
the boss wants this slide after checking it out at the sydney show, so that was easy, and it works a treat,
but the supply is the unknown.
does anyone know of someone that has it, or is this just the latest speal for them.
you have to ask yourself, going on their track record to date.
We have one of these fridge slides, we ordered it at the sydney supershow back in March, think for memory it turned up in June after several phone calls. The story I got was that they were putting them together as quickly as they possibly could and that people who were going away on a trip were geting priority. Strangely enough the next day when I rang back we were going away on our trip soon - a few days later it turned up.
As it is reasonably large and heavy, I didn't want to have it in the back of the Prado all the time so I welded four pieces of flat bar (50mm x 6mm) together so that they were the same dimensions as the fridge slide. Then just drilled and tapped holes in the flat bar that lined up with the existing holes in the base of the fridge slide. Then mounted the flat bar directly on to the top of the outback drawers with a stack of nuts and bolts, think for memory I had four down each side and four across the front. Didn't put any on the back edge (the edge closest to the rear door) so that people wouldn't take skin off their hands when opening closing the drawers. Got some carpert that is the same as whats on the out back drawers from the local carpet shop (they just gave it to me because they could not be bothered working out how much a 50mm wide strip on role that was 3.6m long was worth) and glued it to the flat bar. Also had to punch some holes in the carpet at each of the tapped holes. It's now not even obvious that the frame is there, takes about 2 minutes to put the fridge slide in when needed, and the frame stops my plastic tub full of dive gear from moving around in the back when I go diving.
If doing it again I would use 60mm wide flat bar as I would then be able to secure the frame for the fridge slide to the frame of the drawers, which would make the hole thing a bit stronger. Having said that ours travelled 7200km in four weeks, with about 1200km of that of rough and crappy roads and nothing has come loose. I used stainless nylock nuts and bolts, and also put spring washers on everything as well.
Hey all,
first time reply so bear with me.
guy's i work in a 4wd shop and have seen these drop slide first hand. Fantastic idea BUT peice of crap.weighs a F***ing ton . we sold one to a guy with a 100 series that fell apart on the Gibb River road. The Manufacturer wasn't intrested we had to refund we don't sell anymore !!
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