Hotchkiss WTF

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Dezduster

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Made the mistake of not opening the Hotchkiss boxes for a year and 6 months and no A arms. Now I can't get them to respond to emails and calling gets you on nothing.. I'm on vacation and chatted to a guy getting fuel while I was and he said to me when talking about updating my suspension "Don't deal with Hotchkiss I said I already did he said good luck getting what you paid for."
Anyone else having problems on hear?
 
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You bought something and didn’t open it right away?

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What restraint you must have.
Even if I don’t plan to use something, I always open and inspect it the moment it arrives.
 
Restraint or patience is something I've learned since the plan demic.
I am currently awaiting a SXS 4 years 2 months, EFI repair and now an e mail or phone call from Hotchkiss.
 
Hotchkis hasn't answered a phone call, voice mail or email in months. Check out their instagram, rather than filling orders they are just cancelling them if people ask for updates. They also have shut down comments on newer videos after all the backlash from cancelling people's orders. Ordered shocks via summit Dec 6. Just got the fronts last week.... still waiting on the rears. I don't know what's going on with them but it's not good.
 
charger426 said:
Hotchkis hasn't answered a phone call, voice mail or email in months. Check out their instagram, rather than filling orders they are just cancelling them if people ask for updates. They also have shut down comments on newer videos after all the backlash from cancelling people's orders. Ordered shocks via summit Dec 6. Just got the fronts last week.... still waiting on the rears. I don't know what's going on with them but it's not good.
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Thanks for the information.
 
Had something similar happen to me with a Holley carb during Covid. I bought a 600 CFM, vacuum secondary carb (I'm at work and forget the P/N- 1850, maybe?) for one of my trucks in the Fall of '19 from Summit. Carb showed-up just fine, and I promptly put it on the shelf, thinking I'd get to in the Spring. But then Covid hit, and for various reasons I didn't get to the truck until the Spring of '21, and when I found a broken-off tap inside where the air filter stud is supposed to reside, both Holley and Summit told me I was SOL.

The tap is still there, in fact.....

Learned my lesson.
 
ProjectBazza said:
Had something similar happen to me with a Holley carb during Covid. I bought a 600 CFM, vacuum secondary carb (I'm at work and forget the P/N- 1850, maybe?) for one of my trucks in the Fall of '19 from Summit. Carb showed-up just fine, and I promptly put it on the shelf, thinking I'd get to in the Spring. But then Covid hit, and for various reasons I didn't get to the truck until the Spring of '21, and when I found a broken-off tap inside where the air filter stud is supposed to reside, both Holley and Summit told me I was SOL.

The tap is still there, in fact.....

Learned my lesson.
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Worst part is holley has been buying up everyone.
 
What a shame. Hotchkiss was a good company too with lots of good products. It wouldn't bother me if Holley bought them out. At least they'd still be around. How many companies would we be without if Holley didn't buy them?
 
Sounds like whomever was responsible for the restructuring/reorganizing wasn't prepared for it, or doesn't care, hope they survive it & don't screw the pooch....or customers like the OP. Hope You get Your A-arms...
 
ProjectBazza said:
Had something similar happen to me with a Holley carb during Covid. I bought a 600 CFM, vacuum secondary carb (I'm at work and forget the P/N- 1850, maybe?) for one of my trucks in the Fall of '19 from Summit. Carb showed-up just fine, and I promptly put it on the shelf, thinking I'd get to in the Spring. But then Covid hit, and for various reasons I didn't get to the truck until the Spring of '21, and when I found a broken-off tap inside where the air filter stud is supposed to reside, both Holley and Summit told me I was SOL.

The tap is still there, in fact.....

Learned my lesson.
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Buy another one and return it… :lol:
 
Scody21 said:
Buy another one and return it… :lol:
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I know a dirtbag that does that ****. I lost all respect for him because of stuff like that.
Karma has kicked him in the crotch though. He is 63 and is a broken down, borderline gimp that lives in a room at his son's place.
He deserves all the bad luck that comes his way.
 
Kern Dog said:
I know a dirtbag that does that ****. I lost all respect for him because of stuff like that.
Karma has kicked him in the crotch though. He is 63 and is a broken down, borderline gimp that lives in a room at his son's place.
He deserves all the bad luck that comes his way.
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I’m not saying it’s the right thing to do. But when you have **** bag companies, with sub par quality control sending out items like his carb, that he paid real money for, that was a paper weight from the factory and they won’t make it right. Something has to change, people have to push back, otherwise they are just going to continue bending people over…
 
ProjectBazza said:
Had something similar happen to me with a Holley carb during Covid. I bought a 600 CFM, vacuum secondary carb (I'm at work and forget the P/N- 1850, maybe?) for one of my trucks in the Fall of '19 from Summit. Carb showed-up just fine, and I promptly put it on the shelf, thinking I'd get to in the Spring. But then Covid hit, and for various reasons I didn't get to the truck until the Spring of '21, and when I found a broken-off tap inside where the air filter stud is supposed to reside, both Holley and Summit told me I was SOL.

The tap is still there, in fact.....

Learned my lesson.
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There are tools called tap removers just for that purpose. They work quite well.
 
RustyRatRod said:
There are tools called tap removers just for that purpose. They work quite well.
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Seriously? I've never heard of that!

At the old place a neighbor about 6-7 houses down was a machinist, and he said he would drill and tap it for me if I ever took the carb off the engine. Kind of ashamed to say that I haven't gotten that far yet....

Regardless, I'm off to Google this tap remover tool.

Thanks!

(Edit: @RustyRatRod: Not that I'm going to buy a Chinese tool on Amazon, but is something like this what I'm looking for? Non-metric, obviously....)

 
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