[alfa] Re: alfa-digest V9 #831

[George Graves <gmgraves@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

That's certainly not my experience with APE. I find them courteous and 
helpful, often more than they need to be. I've even had them warn me 
not to purchase something that I called about when it was inappropriate 
(like the V-6 cold-running valve). If you talked to someone who was 
brusque with you, it was likely Larry Sr., and he doesn't mean any 
harm, that's just his way. Larry Jr. and Michael are both very 
courteous and I've found that they will usually go out of their way to 
be helpful. When one of my GTV-6 cooling fans packed-up, and they 
didn't have stock on them ("They go outta here as fast as we get 'em 
in") they recommended that I replace it with a single Milano (75) fan. 
1) It moves more air than the two GTV-6 fans, and 2) even though they 
can't keep GTV-6 fans in stock, they told me that they had never sold a 
Milano fan! All took that to mean that unlike the GTV-6 fans the Milano 
fans don't fail. The downside was that the Milano fan took a bit of 
"engineering" to fit.

All in all, I find APE to be a godsend and if they didn't exist there 
would be a lot fewer Alfas on the road today - including mine.

George Graves
'86 GTV-6 3.0 'S'


On Sunday, September 28, 2003, at 03:48 AM, alfa-digest wrote:


> Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 19:15:58 EDT
> From: Raldel@domain.elided
> Subject: Re: [alfa] Alfa Parts Exchange
>
>      Alfa Parts Exchange has been very unreliable for me. I only 
> resort to
> them when everything else is exhausted. My last call there was met 
> with rudeness
> and an unwillingness to help. I was willing to pay the minimum for a 
> very
> inexpensive item but after I agreed, then they said they didnt want to 
> mess with
> having to go out and get it. So I figure they must not need any more 
> business
> and I wont waste my time on them anymore.
>       Randy Long
>       73 Spider
> - ---------------------------------------------------
> In a message dated 9/26/2003 12:44:11 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> TATERRY@domain.elided writes:
> If you are looking for them, they are listed as APE in the yellow 
> pages. I
> called and left a message inquiring about a drivers side tail light on
> Monday......as of now, no call back.  Does that mean they don't have 
> it or ??
>  Anyone
> with experience with the new APE in Tracy, CA??
> Tnx
> Terry in Oakland
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