So ... how do you feel about replica kits?

Personally, I don't like them ... I feel you get an inferior product. The quality of materials is cheaper, fiberglass is thin and brittle, they never fit correctly and you will, 9 times out of 10, end up making up that 'savings' in installation cost.

Not to mention that the replica makers are stealing from the original manufacturers; months of resarch, design, testing, etc. If the replica business continues to grow, what incentive do the top tuners have for producing new aero parts? Especially if they know it will be knocked off and thier ideas copied and profits continue to shrink b/c of replicas?

 

you have a good point there...every knock off kit i've seen has horrible fitment and quality...i don't want to mention any company names here cause im not trying to sabotage them and their products but "us" as consumers must know the truth before spending your hard earned dollars on these products...like i've said about a thousand times on this forum..you get for what you pay for...

 

you get what you pay for, and sometimes you spend the most valuable resource, time, obtaining the scarcest resource: information....do your research. take the MS kit for example, it's way overpriced. I can't justify spending $5k on a kit that's going on a daily driver (14,000 in 7 months...). Fiberglass can be good if it's installed and manufactured properly. yea, most aren't though. there are good plastic reps out there.

if there was a decent autoexe or knight sports kit out, I'd have it on my car now...MS is a little too mainstream for me.