Don't buy QA1 K-members!!!!

smokin00GT

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I have bought a QA1 K member, and had a major issue with the fit. My whole front suspension shifted about 2 inches. I have since bought a PA Racing K member and have no problems at all. I am going to post the pictures of my car with the Qa1 set up so you can see how bad it is, and then I am going to post the e-mail I recieved from Qa1 regaurding the problem. If you are considering buying one of these I would advise strongly against it because they don't support their customers or their products.
Here is a testement to their tech dept.

I just received notification that the quality control department and our engineering staff have looked at the k-member and they have determined that the k-member measures well within the specifications and that it should fit into the car nicely. I also, had them reveiw the pictures that you sent to me via e-mail, and everyone did see how the k-member fit into the car. Our lead engineer, noticed that the right inner fender / frame looks different when compared to the left side of the car. He noticed the primer or different colored paint and thought that the car may have been involved in an accident at some time in the past, and therfore affecting the fit-up of the k-member.


We also compared your k-member to a couple of k-members in our inventory and they all matched up with the same dimensions. So we are confident that your k-member should fit into the car without any issues.

So with that being said the K-member is good. The fitment issue seems to be an issue of the front chassis horns not being square from the firewall forward, even though the body appears to be straight.
 

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At the time I purchased this part, I did do my homework and found no negetive comments about QA1. I am going to make it my mission to make sure that anyone in the market for this part will be weary of QA1. I also forgot to mention in my oringinal post that the car has never seen an accident what so ever! I will however say that Pa Racing rocks, and is definately worth the extra $$$$.
 
Yes, it was aligned correctly. The K mounted up OK, but it had adjustment to move from front to back, not left to right. No matter how many times I shifted the dumb thing the result was always the same. Why would my stock k member fit fine and the one I bought from PA Racing go in perfectly and not this QA1 piece? I paid to have it shipped to me thinking it should be a great fitting part, then I paid to ship it back to have it inspected, and now they want me to pay to have a crooked non fitting K member shipped back to me. At this point I feel they have an obligation to exchange it for another K-member, or refund my money. Niether of which they are willing to do.
 
Here is a pic of the inside. I am using stock a arms, however I did follow the instructions and all of their suggestions to the letter! If this can be used by someone else with their A arm setup with no problems, I would be willing to sell it cheap. However I don't want to pass this problem off to someone else, I just would wouldn't feel right about it.
 

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Well after 2 months of Qa1 and their bs I have filed a chargeback with my credit card company. This comes after they refused to send the defective K that I paid for back to me unless I pay for shipping it a third time. Buyers beware of QA1, they suck!!!! To those of you who have em' and they fit consider yourself fortunate, because I have found many other people comming out of the wood work who have this same problem.