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Originally Posted by Rallye Sport
Starting to feel the pinch now.
The Cortina club that supplies almost every part, repro, have shut up shop all together.
A couple of my suppliers (Charade GTti gaskets) have stopped posting internationally and my one other chance is saying FEDEX isn't posting to all parts of Australia, I'm in this area apparently.
So time to adapt and overcome.
I have a relative in the UK that may be able to help with triangular shipping, I can buy sheets of gasket cork locally and have a go at making a gasket myself or less than ideal, tubes of RTV silicone are available, locally again, and cheap.
Interesting times  |
There's a small independent business called Yesterford in Bayswater here in Melbourne which specialises in all those British Fords, its only pre 1980 stuff though.
https://www.facebook.com/yesterford/
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Originally Posted by Mr Brooksy
I had some parts come from Italy in less than 2 weeks... Others from Melbourne (before 2nd Covid19 wave) took 3 weeks. A lot of it domestically comes down to who you choose to courier your stuff.
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Melbourne freight went to crap in the Stage 4 restrictions when everyone who didn't have to close down had to reduce staff by 30%, all the sudden freight pickups become touch and go, Australia Post/Startrack became even more useless, so much so that I found sending things via other normal road freight couriers was much faster than Startrack's express services.
They've been delaying everything and losing stuff left right and centre, so much so that it ended up quicker getting lost items on another manufacturing run and sending via another courier before things got delivered to customers.
I'm talking 12-14 days Melbourne to Melbourne via Startrack's air services.
Even now the freight pickups are still hit and miss and same with the deliveries from anything involving the Australia Post group.