LOL, and I thought the ranger people that we strung along forever were hardcore!!! Dude, it is reality, I FINALLY got a response back from the company that's building our sway bar and I'm hoping they are going to build a couple samples like this week and hopefully ship next week so that we can get the 4WD tested. I've been waiting on them since returning from the holiday break.
I'll say this early cause the Ranger guys drove me crazy with this... Price is COMPLETELY OUTTA MY CONTROL. I get quotes on outsourced parts and try to figure out how to build the kits as cost effective as possible but when it comes down to what the final cost to the end consumer will be. I usually find out after the people buying the kit do. In other words, I'm the VERY last person to know what the final MSRP/List price on the kit is once it's determined. One thing I can say on the price of this kit, it may be pricy because there is ONE part that we have not been able to outsource through anyone but toyota which REALLY surprised me.
Realistic date to be on the market... I get my *** chewed for this all the time but I 100% disagree with our marketing department. I swear they just throw out release dates off the top of their head to keep you guys happy without even talking to me. I'm the one that can give you the most to date if NOTHING goes wrong release date and they don't ask me for that info... with that said and I'm sure it'll come around to haunt me. Let's say I get the sway bars in end of next week (assuming my outsourced company is on the ball and gets their shiat taken care of). Fit test the following week or two depending on our designer's schedule. Assuming the fit test goes smooth, the truck then will go to Bilstein for shock valving developement. They usually have the truck for a week and trust me, you don't want this to be your truck, they beat the CRAP outta it developing the shocks, sounds like a fun job though!!! That sounds like say... 1.5 months to production starts assuming ALL goes smooth and there's no hang ups. Production, we usually call about 3 months from start to finish to flow through our facility, remeber... we've got like 8 bajillion other kits that we make so it get's tossed in the line up... So, figure out those numbers and that's probably realistic assuming our vendors deliver on time and our fit test goes smooth (which from the 2WD we did I'm expecting it to.)
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