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hi has any of you guys bought an alloy water pump housing from SCPARTS ltd from Crawley sussex,if you have did it fit ok? was it a good Quality part?

Years ago I bought an alloy water pump housing for my Vitesse from Canley Classics.  It fitted well.  

I remember it arriving at work and on opening the parcel enjoying the smell of a newly machined parts - the machine oil took me back to my garage away from the office for a moment!

I expect they all come from the same source.  Bastuck?

Thanks Steve Bastuck appears to be still in buisness, canley classics still sell alloy water pump housings to fit vitesse gt6 tr5 tr6 my car is a mk2 2500 saloon i presume the alloy water pump housing from canleys would fit my engine am i right?

I expect it would be OK but Canley Classics would know for sure, ask them.  David Pearson has several big saloons in his collection.

ok thanks Steve

Quoted from vitessesteve

Years ago I bought an alloy water pump housing for my Vitesse from Canley Classics.  It fitted well.  

I remember it arriving at work and on opening the parcel enjoying the smell of a newly machined parts - the machine oil took me back to my garage away from the office for a moment!

I expect they all come from the same source.  Bastuck?

Quoted from vitessesteve

I expect it would be OK but Canley Classics would know for sure, ask them.  David Pearson has several big saloons in his collection.

I have not personally dealt with SCParts but was considering buying from them until I did a search on their reputation.

They always look like a professional outfit but feedback would suggest otherwise - more recent feedback seems better.

http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/sc-parts-crawley-england-west-sussex-c71117.html

Regards

Chris

My only attempted dealing with them was when I urgently needed a part for our Mini. I phoned up, they refused to do anything until I had registered. So all my details etc. I then asked if they had the part in stock, yes. OK, will drive over and pick it up. Nope, has to be sent form wherever. I was furious, 15minutes of my life wasted.
They may be OK as a mail order supplier, but it seems to be big catalogues etc but you might as well be ordering tins of beans to them.

My water pump housing is from them. I haven't tried it on a running engine yet so can't comment as to whether it works well or not.

Ordered from them online so I can't say as to service in person either.

If you can wait til September (hopefully) then I might be able to tell you

Any chance of weighing it before you fit it?

There is a good reason for the question.

I have a alloy pump housing on my GT6, bought from Canleys, fit and forget!

I agree with Tim I have a Canleys one on my 2.5 Spitfire no issues with it.  I would suggest Canleys over Soc even though SOC are closer.
Canleys stuff turns up the following day just had two GT6 door glasses delivered yesterday from Canleys. All arrived safe and sound

Martin

Quoted from Slimboyfat

Any chance of weighing it before you fit it?

There is a good reason for the question.

Quoted from BiTurbo228

SC Parts one is 1.107kg

Quoted from Slimboyfat

That confirms what I had been told by a GT6 owning customer of ours (his was a little heavier still).

Other housings avialable from other sources are generally 100-200 grams lighter.

the part number for the alloy water pump housing is the same as Bastuck part number so ordered one from scparts via ebay it arrived at my place in a couple of days but wasnt at home so its waiting for me at my local post office according to the parcel force ticket, well i hope it is, wont be able to pick it up till saturday, wont be fitting it till i change the cam shaft in my engine

picked up my alloy water pump housing from the post office this morning, it has come from Buchholz Germany, so i presume it from Bastuck, any way opened up the package looks well made at first but it has no thread where the heater return pipe fits, and barely any threads in the temp sender hole and the hole opposite, got straight on the phone to sccarparts he asked me to email pictures of it which i did, phoned back half an hour later to check he had received the email he said he would have to check the other alloy pump housings first before he sends me another and would get in touch with me in the week. plus il have to post the dud one back to them, so im waiting now, i bought this through ebay with pay pal so i can sort any problems via ebay but can i get my money back from pay pal if i need to?

In my experience eBay tend to find in favour of the buyer and pay them a refund.  The refund goes to the buyer and eBay pulls the money from the sellers account.  I speak as a former seller who on occasion, had to pay refunds for goods not returned to me or where the buyer claimed not to have received them.

thanks steve ive always had good results from ebay with any problems ive had. il give scparts till thursday to get in touch then probably go to ebay resolution if its not sorted

Yeah, I got done a few times - sold 6 meters of braided hose, on a signed for thing, the buyer said they never recieved it, even though it had been signed for. Then I had to give them a refund for £35. That put me off selling on ebay.

Iggy, look up your rights - easy to find consumer law on Which.com etc. You are entitled to a refund for any reason (which you do not have to give I think), and the seller has to pay for the return postage, or refund the cost to you anyway. Get a refund and get the better quality one from Canleys etc.