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How NOT to ship a turbo. - Click HERE for Original Thread

jutes85
While on temporary deployment my roommate went to the post office to pick up my new turbo and here are the pictures he sent me.

The bag that the turbo was "wrapped in" broke open, so now every aspect of the turbo is filled full of that styrofoam chips. I'm talking Oil inlet, Oil outlet, Compressor, Turbine.. EVERYWHERE !!!!!

Both Uppipe and Downpipe gaskets are completely useless, they are bent, gouged, and absolutely mangled. The only good thing was that the oil feed line seemed to have survived the trip relatively unharmed.







jutes85






So this is what I get for $1600. A brand new Blouch turbo wrapped in a plastic walmart bag now ruined due to some idiot who wanted to save a few bucks for shipping. (BTW, this was NOT bought from Blouch.) Turbo is now at Blouch getting cleaned at the expense of the shipper.

People, don't cheap out on shipping materials and wrap your items properly.

catlin987987
could have bee worse
its not dropped cracked or dented
cleaning is always cheaper the a new one;)

little_one_der
Yeah, um, I'd want to lap all those mounting flanges.

platnum accord
Those are some sexxi lookin fingers.
You ever consider being a hand model?

Altezza
Oh damn that sucks man hopefully everything will work out for you.

Cyanide Ride
Atleast the shipper is paying to get it sorted out.

Lucky for you, that is one mess I would not want to be paying to clean up.

Was it a company you purchase it from?

Texmex
You get what you paid for....!!

Spoonin
quote:
Originally posted by Texmex
You get what you paid for....!!



that doesnt make any sense....since he paid 1600 bucks...its not like he cheaped out or anything

Driven
quote:
Originally posted by Spoonin
that doesnt make any sense....since he paid 1600 bucks...its not like he cheaped out or anything


x2

i gotta say.. that's fucking HORRENDOUS. I wonder what his reaction was.. YAY NEW TURBO.. to OMFG WTF BBQ.

Soulfly
quote:
Originally posted by Spoonin
that doesnt make any sense....since he paid 1600 bucks...its not like he cheaped out or anything


Cheaping out on shipping... :rolleyes:

iLLlegal
just hook it all up and let your buddys engine do the cleaning sheesh. im pretty sure they will get hot enough to just burn it all out :p

Thegnome
I feel your pain man... I bought a new holset hx35 cartridge off a guy on ebay.

And he shipped it in news paper and a shitty cardboard box...

I was "shocked" to see this




Alot of my turbine fins dented to shit.

Fortunately, they werent as hard as I suspected and I could bend them back into shape. Seems fine now, but fuck sake... Who would have thought thin metal fins would dent when some fuck mook mail guy probably drop kicks the package into the back of the ups truck.

catlin987987
you should bend them back they are balanced you would think one being bent would throw it off

Thegnome
I did. I brought it to work and threw them under a dial. I got them within .005" of each other.

Turbos been in for two weeks, seems good, I've gotten over how angry I was at the guy who shipped it :D

Mattiji
Damn thats sucks man good luck... try to buy in city, or closer?:dunno:
Man service just sucks nowadays

jutes85
quote:
Originally posted by Mattiji
Damn thats sucks man good luck... try to buy in city, or closer?:dunno:
Man service just sucks nowadays



No way I could buy that turbo in the country, let alone the city.

Atleast the seller has covered the costs of shipping, plus cleaning the turbo and new gaskets. Just sucks having to wait another few weeks to get all the stuff in.




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