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Trouble mounting new HM 323 pipes
paulbaker1954:
That's interesting Ash the factvthatvthe DS and CMS instructions are the same would confirm they use the same manufacturer a fact I had long suspected
Bryanj:
I doubt very much that more than one firm would tool up to make these
royhall:
I can vouch for that.
The dreadful pattern exhausts for the CB350F were all the same. I had exhausts from three different suppliers and they were all bad. Sent them all back in the end.
Strangely these exhausts seem to have disappeared now. I hope they are going to redo them as it was just the welding that was crap.
The pressings were good and the chroming was top notch, got to wonder why they went to all that effort to chrome horrible welds. CMSL told me they had hundreds of units and they were all the same. Wonder if they thought they could get away with it.
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AshimotoK0:
--- Quote from: paulbaker1954 on June 14, 2016, 06:26:32 AM ---That's interesting Ash the factvthatvthe DS and CMS instructions are the same would confirm they use the same manufacturer a fact I had long suspected
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The CMS boxes are the give away with a DS sticker on, Paul. ;) ;) . Thing is that I won't be fitting them yet and if there is a problem when I do, I reckon DS would still sort it out whereas I have had bad reports about returns to CMS. e.g. Saisei had bad fitting 400/4 downpipes from them but had to get me to confirm there was a fitting issue before they would consider refunding him. May be something to do with trader-to-trader transactions but still sounds a bit sh*tty customer service to me. Having said that in all my years of restoring Honda's I have never bought a single item from CMS so they could be great for all I know.
The puzzle to me on the 500 exhaust is that DS kept rejecting them as not being fit for sale but CMS were selling them. I wonder if Roy's experience comes in here. i.e CMS possibly sold the ones of early manufacture that DS would not accept. 'Coastpath' on eBay used to work for CMS BTW, that's why you see him selling prototypes unchromed etc. He is in Wales but everything is shipped from a warehouse in Holland!
Bryanj:
I have bought parts from CMS but strangely Suzuki parts and never had a problem
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