CLUM

Just buy authentic. Support the company who made you drool over this design instead of supporting a company (or someone) who rips off the design.

Artisan doesn't come up with the money and resources to create new products for us from people like you purchasing replica parts. I don't mean for this to sound like an attack--I'm just speaking the truth.

If only knock off companies existed, then nothing new would ever come out. Don't support them.

jlopez3983

so... i've been in the custom audio industry for quite some time. When you start to get into any type of custom work that ISN'T mass produced and DOESN'T have a huge demand your talking big bucks. I've attached the picture below of a custom piece I did for my old S2000. This piece took me about 30 - 50 hours to perfect and make it look like it was meant to be there. If you own the business you dont do work for free... so lets say someones time = $25/Hour @ 30-50 hours.... your talking $750 to $1250.... and that just labor, no parts, no profit. To make this easier and to match the dash better i used a leather/vinyl material to cover the bondo and fiberglass underneath. This hides ALL of the imperfections. If i was to make this perfect and then spray it afterwards... you could easily double the time.

My point is ... If you dont buy authentic parts for the engineering, R&D, time and materials... These companies will no longer make parts for any vehicle you buy, and eventually will just go away. So do yourself and the community a favor. BUY AUTHENTIC MADE PARTS. Stop being cheap.

jnesss

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Carb...ceBeautifyAB=3

babiibryan

This one looks very close to the authentic one, but they are already sold out. Wish I can find another seller is selling this.

ex00

I believe JCSportline was the original company that made the molds for that type and they sold it off to another company a few months ago.

TOPENDMS

Well said. And parts have been going away for the last 20 years.

Buying from China is like buying your neighbors rims from the gang that stole them. Replicas are illegal. I always recommend a short mods list of quality parts over a long list of low quality parts. I see a lot of people say they can’t afford real parts then go and spend double with a big list of el cheapo products that actually degrade value of the build.