89 242 SS - What's behind the door?
10-22-2004 | 09:01 PM
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Re: 89 242 SS - What's behind the door?
Actually, I found out some interesting stuff today -- in the case of that particular key, it's not Formula specific. It's a generic key and probably opens a lot of people's truck covers and stuff as well as my (and your) storage compartment.
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache...+E3-5-15&hl=en
is a link that will take you to a Google-cached version of a story in the St Augustine Record from last year about a guy that got freaked out about all the people who could open his truck bed cover with this key.
I found a couple places on line where I can buy the key (which is less than five bucks as was mentioned earlier), except they all want to charge me like six bucks to ship it to me via UPS!
But in the case of things that ARE Formula specific, it would be sweet to be able to buy the stuff on line. I know I would pick up a lot of stuff if I could go put in my boat year and model and pick stuff up. I'm sure when you call you might get a real helpful parts person, but I don't really dig calling somebody up and asking if they have the "thingy" that holds on the "gadget" over by the "other thingy".
For example, on both sides of my cockpit there are multicolored vinyl covered trim pieces. They are not torn or anything, but some time ago they bled and got stained. I guess the guy two owners ago called Formula and they agreed to ship him two replacements, but the boat changed hands before they were received and the guy I bought the boat from never hooked back up with the dude to get em. But I don't even know what those things are called.
If I could go to the website and see an exploded diagram of my boat and a parts list and price the stuff out, that would be sweet. Same for a lot of other stuff. But nobody seems to have that kind of functionality.
I know in some cases, dealer agreements and territories (Yanmar comes to mind) prevent a dealer from selling product into another dealer's turf. Maybe that is the case here, I dunno.
Lots of national brands with those kinds of agreements have that functionality on their corporate site, and once you want to actually buy the stuff, they run the order and pass it to the dealer that "owns" the customer's turf. And sites like Go2Marine don't hold any inventory at all, they basically just broker transactions for vendors who do the fulfillment.
But I'm just selfish and want to be able to go to Formula's website and buy a service manual and some replacement FORMULA chrome letters for my boat and some other stuff...is that so much to ask?
I can't even find a Formula decal to put on the side windows of the canopy on my truck. Best I can find on the Formula website is a window cling that goes on the inside. Grumble. Grumble.
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache...+E3-5-15&hl=en
is a link that will take you to a Google-cached version of a story in the St Augustine Record from last year about a guy that got freaked out about all the people who could open his truck bed cover with this key.
I found a couple places on line where I can buy the key (which is less than five bucks as was mentioned earlier), except they all want to charge me like six bucks to ship it to me via UPS!
But in the case of things that ARE Formula specific, it would be sweet to be able to buy the stuff on line. I know I would pick up a lot of stuff if I could go put in my boat year and model and pick stuff up. I'm sure when you call you might get a real helpful parts person, but I don't really dig calling somebody up and asking if they have the "thingy" that holds on the "gadget" over by the "other thingy".
For example, on both sides of my cockpit there are multicolored vinyl covered trim pieces. They are not torn or anything, but some time ago they bled and got stained. I guess the guy two owners ago called Formula and they agreed to ship him two replacements, but the boat changed hands before they were received and the guy I bought the boat from never hooked back up with the dude to get em. But I don't even know what those things are called.
If I could go to the website and see an exploded diagram of my boat and a parts list and price the stuff out, that would be sweet. Same for a lot of other stuff. But nobody seems to have that kind of functionality.
I know in some cases, dealer agreements and territories (Yanmar comes to mind) prevent a dealer from selling product into another dealer's turf. Maybe that is the case here, I dunno.
Lots of national brands with those kinds of agreements have that functionality on their corporate site, and once you want to actually buy the stuff, they run the order and pass it to the dealer that "owns" the customer's turf. And sites like Go2Marine don't hold any inventory at all, they basically just broker transactions for vendors who do the fulfillment.
But I'm just selfish and want to be able to go to Formula's website and buy a service manual and some replacement FORMULA chrome letters for my boat and some other stuff...is that so much to ask?
I can't even find a Formula decal to put on the side windows of the canopy on my truck. Best I can find on the Formula website is a window cling that goes on the inside. Grumble. Grumble.
