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Alert: Help Needed contacting Christopher's Foreign Auto Parts
Does anyone have the contact information for Christopher's Foreign Auto Parts? After much recommendation of their kits, his Ebay store, website, and phone number listed in packaging contents all come up zilch.
What I'm about to say may send absolute horror down anyone who has taken the time to use one of his kits.
Long story short, an oil change today has turned into a nightmare I thought I wouldn't see on my 2001 XK8. Pulled the drain, and always watch for anything odd, sparklies, etc., when I noticed a big piece of plastic stopping a lot of the flow of the oil drain.
Spent about 20 mins pulling the drain pan and I see this (the ends of BOTH of the curved long guides) in the oil pan. They weren't from the old ones as I still have them, and they are not curved/different at the end anyway.
If anyone knows Christopher, how to contact him, or whatever I would be very appreciative. I now have a car with a loose tensioner blade/guide so its not operable, and to add insult to injury I have another $800 in parts I don't trust to use now!!!! !@#%!!@#!
Edit: I have only driven 4-5k miles, and I put the kit in Mar 1 of 2020 to give reference. If an admin wants to contact me, PM me and I can give you my cell. Just learned that Chris passed away. My condolences to the family.
Last edited by srpope80; Apr 29, 2024 at 11:41 AM.
Does anyone have the contact information for Christopher's Foreign Auto Parts? After much recommendation of their kits, his Ebay store, website, and phone number listed in packaging contents all come up zilch.
What I'm about to say may send absolute horror down anyone who has taken the time to use one of his kits.
Long story short, an oil change today has turned into a nightmare I thought I wouldn't see on my 2001 XK8. Pulled the drain, and always watch for anything odd, sparklies, etc., when I noticed a big piece of plastic stopping a lot of the flow of the oil drain.
Spent about 20 mins pulling the drain pan and I see this (the ends of BOTH of the cured long tensioners) in the oil pan. They weren't from the old ones as I still have them, and they are not curved/different at the end anyway.
I don't know whether to be happy or absolutely pissed as I had bought two more kits from Christopher to do my Silverstone and my Uncle's pristine XK8.
If anyone knows Christopher, how to contact him, or whatever I would be very appreciative. I now have a car with a loose tensioner blade/guide so its not operable, and to add insult to injury I have another $800 in parts I don't trust to use now!!!! !@#%!!@#!
Edit: I have only driven 4-5k miles, and I put the kit in Mar 1 of 2020 to give reference. If an admin wants to contact me, PM me and I can give you my cell.
FWIW, the domain looks like it was renewed in March. The last Wayback Machine snapshot was March 20. Since then, the site has been hacked and is essentially down. His eBay store is empty.
It looks like they pulled the plug on the business and abandoned it, especially if the phone number no longer works. I'm going to venture a guess that you're SOL and need to do the work again. Sorry.
Thanks for the confirmation @sklimii , I guess I'm opening the timing cover again. After further inspection I found other pieces of the guide debris in the pickup screen as well. Anyone that used this kit might want to drop their oil pan on the next oil change or simply look for any pieces near the drain plug hole.
Please do, I and doubtlessly others will be very interested to see your findings.
I'd already dropped the oil pan to clean out debris and no doubt I'll be doing it again. At least we all know the parts needed and have had some practice on this job.
Alert: Help Needed contacting Christopher's Foreign Auto Parts
