Potential orders for 18 inch escoz replica wheels

[rscosworthman]

updated

Yeah the pdf file too - see my signature below. We're well past half with 117 commitments, great, we will make it!

In terms of timing: the factory is on holiday end of next week (22nd) and their are crazy busy in this last week.

So what I agreed is with them (provided we get to 200 wheel orders) is that my down-payment for the low-pressure casting mold and the first samples is on their bank account when they return from holiday (Feb 15th), so they can start right away.

All-in-all a logical ultimate deadline for the down payments is February 7th

In other words - we have another 3 weeks for down payments.

The rest of the timeline is then approximately:

• 6 weeks to make the mold and first samples: end of march
• 1 week my wife to check and improve in china and send samples to Ben, John and myself
• 2 weeks to have Ben, John, myself check the samples and do destructive tests
• 1 week for the chinese to improve on feedback: end of april
• 4 weeks to produce all 200+ wheels: end of may
• 6 weeks to ship to UK and NL: half July
• 2 weeks of customs: end of July
• 2 days shipment within UK/NL: early August

[SHaDoWLanDZ]

[Holmen]

I don't get it.

Do we need 200 set / 800 rims?

73 customers has order 82 set and 29 spare rims = 339 rims totally

[rscosworthman]

200 rims we need

I don't get it.

Do we need 200 set / 800 rims?

73 customers has order 82 set and 29 spare rims = 339 rims totally

[Adamski]

I'll fire mine over later Ben, after work.

[Ben Purnell]

cheers Adam, big brake or classic for you?

[Holmen]

If i understand the list right, it says:

45 customers has order 4 rims each = 180
23 customers has order 5 rims each = 115
3 customers has order 8 rims each = 24
2 customers has order 10 rims each = 20

73 custumers has order 82 set and 29 spare rims = 339

[rscosworthman]

If i understand the list right, it says:

45 customers has order 4 rims each 180
23 customers has order 5 rims each 115
3 customers has order 8 rims each 24
2 customers has order 10 rims each 20

73 custumers has order 82 set and 29 spare rims = 339

Hi Holmen, now I understand where you're coming from and you're right- from the initial interest that people showed, a total of 339 wheels could be ordered, which would be a definitive GO for the project of course.

But here it is: We want some more commitment than just saying "you want a set", since I'm about to ship more than 50.000 dollar of my own hard earned money to a Chinese wheel manufacturer.

So I want to have some assurance that people are actually going to buy the wheels, before I get stuck with 196 spare wheels for my own car, in other words a container full of useless aluminum and never see my 50K back

So all that counts now are the down payments - and there we have a total of 25 sets and 117 wheels, so we're waiting for the remaining 83 down payed wheels to come in (and I'm sure they will) (SEE COLUMN F 'PAID' IN EXCEL)

[Holmen]

Now I understand.
Blue = paid.
White = waiting for payment
Me =

Hi Holmen, now I understand where you're coming from and you're right- from the initial interest that people showed, a total of 339 wheels could be ordered, which would be a definitive GO for the project of course.

But here it is: We want some more commitment than just saying "you want a set", since I'm about to ship more than 50.000 dollar of my own hard earned money to a Chinese wheel manufacturer.

So I want to have some assurance that people are actually going to buy the wheels, before I get stuck with 196 spare wheels for my own car, in other words a container full of useless aluminum and never see my 50K back

So all that counts now are the down payments - and there we have a total of 25 sets and 117 wheels, so we're waiting for the remaining 83 down payed wheels to come in (and I'm sure they will) (SEE COLUMN F 'PAID' IN EXCEL)

[Adamski]

cheers Adam, big brake or classic for you?

Classic!

[devilsports]

Payment sent

[Adamski]

Mines sent!

[CossieTrev]

Random one that I've been meaning to ask.

What wheel nuts are we going to need? I figured standard size and thread, but collared or un collared? I need to get a new set and want to buy the right ones! At the moment i seem to have 16 un collared and 4 collared! The un collared seem to work best in my comps as I belive they have a collar pressed in the wheel?

[rscosworthman]

Random one that I've been meaning to ask.

What wheel nuts are we going to need? I figured standard size and thread, but collared or un collared? I need to get a new set and want to buy the right ones! At the moment i seem to have 16 un collared and 4 collared! The un collared seem to work best in my comps as I belive they have a collar pressed in the wheel?

With collar

[ossie cossie]

Random one that I've been meaning to ask.

What wheel nuts are we going to need? I figured standard size and thread, but collared or un collared? I need to get a new set and want to buy the right ones! At the moment i seem to have 16 un collared and 4 collared! The un collared seem to work best in my comps as I belive they have a collar pressed in the wheel?

I was just about to ask that as well.