RE: [DML] Straight skinny on fuel accumulators

["John Hervey" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

No, James. What I am trying to inform people on is that there is a
difference in ( New ) like in brand new fresh and someone saying ( New ) and
they are really ( NOS ) 20 year old parts. Anything which has a rubber seals
inside them will become harden and brittle and dry out over time. The seals
are in contact with metal inside and the rubber material is out gassing all
the time. Not counting the storage from Hot to cold and humidity. All these
factors pay a part in the life of the product.
Just like the clutch master cylinders also.
Reliable sources have told me they quit using the NOS accumulators because
of the failure rate and went back to New. For $10.00 difference in price and
all the trouble it takes to replace them, then I will leave it up to the
customers which ones they want to put in their car. Same way with clutch
master cylinders, again I have been told my more than one person that they
failed in less than 6 months and was told it was something in their system
and it wouldn't be replaced no charge.
If you want to miss lead people by saying ( New ) not NOS like they really
are then that's your business and you will have to contend with it, but I
will tell it like it is. I will warranty the New Bosch accumulators for 5
years or any reasonable length of time and as well the new rebuilt clutch
master cylinders.
We use fresh new rubber seals in our clutch master cylinders so you can get
maximum life and we will replace them No Charge if they fail with in any
reasonable length of time. Say 2,3 5 years. My personal driver car had about
50,000 miles on it before the clutch seal failed, so why wouldn't a ( new )
replacement not do the same thing.
If you and the group would like to read up on Rubber and related products
that have seals, then here is the link.
http://www.epm.com/storage.htm
John Hervey
www.specialtauto.com





-----Original Message-----
From: James [mailto:james@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2004 9:43 AM
To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [DML] Straight skinny on fuel accumulators





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





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