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raz0r$harP.UK Grand Master

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None of the usual suppliers (Mod Your Car, Slidewize) are no longer able to source new Buddy Club rims. Apparently this is due to the Japanese company closing up shop. Have read a few forums which sorta confirm this:

http://www.jtuned.com/forums/showthread.php?t=373

Pissed me off no end. There's a bit more to it though, I'll see if I can find the other link..

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Evo_Lee Experienced

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Buddy Club has in fact closed up, the news was a month ago...the P1's are gone forevar!

Similar thing happened to SSR...the Type C's are gone forevar!

Influx of cheap China made rims, like the copies of TSR Type C's I saw here in Taiwan is the main reason. They look identical except for the logo, even the font and colours scene for the logo is identical just the brand name.

Such a pity...both SSR and Buddy Club poured heaps of money into redesigning the wheels with cheaper materials and process but failed to succeed. Hard to imagine but this is the story I was told when I spoke to my supplier in Japan last month. Even my mate at SA told me the same story, they have no more stock. This will only makes these wheels even more sort after as both these wheels models Type C and P1 QF are the lightest and 2nd lightest racing wheels in Japan...lighter than Volks TE37.

raz0r$harP.UK Grand Master

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Buddy Club has in fact closed up, the news was a month ago...the P1's are gone forevar!

I actually heard that it's just the Jap owner (First Inc) going belly up, and that internationally Buddy Club is ok. I spoke with Jeff Ash at C-Red and he reckons that they make start taking orders again quite possibly as soon as a couple of months from now, but no official word.

Vijay

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I actually heard that it's just the Jap owner (First Inc) going belly up, and that internationally Buddy Club is ok. I spoke with Jeff Ash at C-Red and he reckons that they make start taking orders again quite possibly as soon as a couple of months from now, but no official word.

Vijay

I don't know about Buddy Clubs involvement outside Japan, but none of the wheel outlets in Japan can get any more stock then what they already have still remaining.

PS, I know Jeff Ash well :cheers:, put him in contact with a couple of his suppliers in Japan.

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