MOPED ARMY

whoooooooa duuuuuude!

my clutch pulley is old as dirty and had no packaging. some people talk about getting it on a blank white box?

as a dealer for Doppler, i can tell you a few things.

1. Doppler parts are made in france. the clutch pulley comes in an unlabeled white box.

2. Doppler, the company, also owns the marque(brand) teknix, which is aftermarket stock parts mostly. these are made in portugal like biturbos and a lot of other aftermarket moped parts.

3. The Doppler clutch pulley was out of stock for over a year from Doppler. Most people that got them in the last year or two got them from people who had a stockpile, like rcvteam.

4. Doppler had more clutch pulleys made, and the new versions are different and seemingly crappier. i'll bet that they had the teknix manufacturers make the pulleys.

5. this doesn't mean that treats(come one dude else could you have gotten it from) has duped you in any way.

6. mopeds break. most parts you buy are kits, not perfect bolt on stuff. Figure out a way to make the best of it.

7. Party.

Yep.

it happens all the time

old chuck taylors vs. new chuck taylors

double cheeseburger vs. McDouble

Star Wars Eps. 4-6 vs. Eps. 1-3

I'm confused now .What exactly are you saying?? Are you pointing a finger at the vendor like he switched it or something?? Are you asking for a refund or replacement ? If I heard the explanation from Bret correctly Replacement/warehouse parts come from different manufacturers sometimes . The vendor , as a distributor, a middleman if you will ,received from the manufacturer what he ordered for you . The fact that they might have come from two different lots or batches of production parts isn't his fault. In any case , I'd contact the vendor directly vs trying to communicate via a public forum where he may not see it . Threatening someone's business via a public forum isn't cool either when all it could take is a simple phonecall to remedy the situation.I hardly doubt that anybody in our hobby would seriously screw somebody intentionally. Hope it all works out though.

This is why I make my own performance parts.

100% control of the quality, if it breaks I know where to get stuff to fix it and a whole lot less money...

My 50/50 moby has one fancy store bought performance part (varplus) and it would be fine and have a higher top speed without it.

Hi Mike , Got it , Hey would you mind posting a pic of the real vs no name brand . That would help out a lot of people before they purchase one . What's a telltale sign of one to avoid?? Since it appears this problem is common, everyone should know this . Do we know exactly who makes the weaker part? Are there less casting fins etc??

So it was RCV-team or la-becanerie? Mike, that blows but lately I'm a little disappointed with doppler stuff as it's obvious they cheapened down their QC and parts lines after bankruptcy.

OT- Hehehe Benji , Just read your piece in your profile - "Two Thumbs Up"

now you're getting whiney. and ya, the p0ics you said you would post but didn't would help a lot.

How about you go do something else now, "dccracing"?

check the demensions and angles... if they are the same, the owners of doppler just contracted out... if they are slightly diff, then you have reason to bitch.

but i would be pissed... bitch enough and you might get a free one.

the dimensions are off by about 1mm but that is not the big prob. The inner bearing housing is what i assume is stainless on the real doppler the fake doppler just has bearings pressed in aluminum.

Yo....I wanna see pics too.

And, yeah, Mike - I'm with you. I'd be fucking pissed if I paid for something that was advertised as one thing at one value, but in reality was really a who lot cheaper.

Hmmm....let's see if you paid 60k for a Mercedes for the performance, details, interior, and overall top of the line shit that = Mercedes....

...oh, but then in a week it ended up performing and breaking down like a 1960's VW.....

I dunno - would you want your money back?

Call me crazy, but I would.

Yeah - these are mopeds. These are moped parts. And I think Benji summed it all up real well. Totally. Anyways....I get what you're saying, Mike.

Although... as far as I've read / talked w/ owners of these clutch pulleys... Those posts don't exactly come fully tightened... and the owners failure to tighten them fully, has lead to a few deaths of clutch-pulleys...

So there's always that...

I think if you do a little searching, there's another thread where this happened.... and he accepted it as user-error... which is probably what yours was as well.

Did you infact make sure everything was fully snuggled down?

Also, you might get in touch w/ Naz, as he's creating some replacement posts for another feller that this happened to...

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