[DML] Straight skinny on fuel accumulators

["James" <james@xxxxxxxxxx>]

What's John's trying to make people think here is that the
accumulators that he sells are "better" than the NOS ones that are
available from all the other proper vendors. I did a quick check on
the sales history of this part since January 2000 and find that we
have sold 500+ of these accumulators both mail order and installed in
cars in our service facility. I see NONE that have been returned as
defective. In addition, we've been using/selling these same NOS
accumulators as far back as 1997, when we acquired the KAPAC inventory.

The point is, if these NOS accumulators are so bad, why aren't any
getting returned or at least reported to us as going bad? After nearly
eight years of using them in the shop and selling them mail order if
someone were to install one of these and have it fail later, you can
bet we would have heard about it.

Many DeLoreans are still on their first accumulator - 20+ years later.
They will not last forever - but there is no quantifiable evidence to
suggest that ones that come from our inventory of NOS units will last
any shorter amount of time than a new one. And if anyone HAS
verifiable, quantifiable evidence (meaning more than 0.5% defective
rate as quoted to me by our Bosch rep as their failure rate) I
encourage you to bring it to my attention.

Please let me know if I can be of further assistance.

James Espey
DeLorean Motor Company (Texas)
15023 Eddie Drive
Humble, Texas 77396 USA
800/USA-DMC1
http://www.delorean.com
Serving DeLorean owners with parts AND service since 1981

--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "John Hervey" <john@xxxx> wrote:
> 
> Rich,
(snip)
> Warranty like that can be offered with brand new
> parts not NOS parts.
> John Hervey








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