Wrong,better than late!

Reading through the postings about Nortons failings, well it must be a human failing still going on...a firm i deliver parts for still would rather send parts out not correct to drawings than those pasts being late!
I have returned their parts to be re-machined ...the reason is simple..the invoice date! They get paid, at the invoiced date..so the correction is never seen in the accounts! Did Norton use this rou to get sales, ie cash up front,,then fix the bikes?

I've always found it nteresting that original Norton parts interchange just fine between any Commando whereas modern parts, made with allegedly far superior machining often do not fit at all without some "user assistance" …

mike996 said:

I've always found it nteresting that original Norton parts interchange just fine between any Commando whereas modern parts, made with allegedly far superior machining often do not fit at all without some "user assistance" …

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And when they do fit some break within a few hundred miles, some within a few thousand and if you're lucky some last as they should - it's a lottery and the so called genuine spares situation is atrocious. Andover Norton website features the heading "tested to destruction" - the only people testing parts to destruction are the poor bastards who fit them to their engines and then use them (me for one). The only way to go in the future is NOS, good quality used and the outlets sourcing/manufacturing their own parts from quality manufacturers e.g Carrillo, KibbleWhite, Maney, JS etc. There's a huge gap in the market for spares that fit and work. In all seriousness the gaskets and sundries AN supply are good and reliable but I'm struggling to think of anything else they supply specifically for Commandos which are of the same standard. That will have just about ostracised me from the remainder of the UK dealers I was using. I've heard the argument, "we should be grateful for the dealers" and "if it wasn't for the dealers we'd have no spares" - bollocks! Where there is a demand someone will provide the service and I cant see how it could be much worse.

I'm discovering there's a bit more to fitting a Mk2a crank to Mk3 primary drive than I first thought.....sun is shining bike is in the garage.....she was running beautifully 6 weeks ago.......then I noticed oil mist on the Andover Norton d/s crank case....... :evil:

Just thinking...i bet when the bad reports came back to Norton in the hayday...and a few hundred bikes where all sealed up in their export crates.. the boss's just said send them! "we have no parts to modify them now, and anyway the dealers can fix them . lets get the cash in! worry later :!:

Most people dont realize that most businesses must worry about cash flow more than anything else.
It is never ending.