Bed side replacement parts
Does anyone have any info on goodmark compared to AMD bedsides. I am asking due to I can get goodmark for 200$ less per side
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I think they are the same for a short bed, I have AMD and Woodall industries they are identical
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It just don't make sense to me why the AMD are so much more if there is not a huge difference in them.
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there all the same just different names to charge more for the middle man . average mark up is 35% to retail . so when you see the dealers sell with a 25% discount they are still making 10% . :smoke:
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So it sounds like it don't really matter who I buy them from it sounds like no garantee what manufacturer made them.
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Well ... No , I think you can be pretty certain the parts are all coming from the same AMD plant in Taiwan . I mean really guys we are talking about replacement parts for one model of 50 year old Chevy truck parts , Do you really think there are multiple factories producing multiple brands of the same parts for such a small market as 67-72 Chevy trucks ? All these different brands are just the middle men brands to try to imply different grades of products .By that thinking there would be 5 factories making rocker panels in Taiwan and shipping them to dealers all across the country ? I mean when you call Billy joe bobs truck parts and order a set of bedsides that he's walking out back and packing and shipping them to you from his warehouse ? No, they would be drop shipped to you from the suppliers warehouse rather than shipping them all over the country and that would be why we see so many parts show up with multiple stickers on them from multiple dealers like when my triplus bed sides arrived in an AMD box with Woodall stickers on it . :smoke:
Goodmark Dynacorn Keyparts Triplus Woodall I would just have a hard time believing just these 5 dealers would find it financially viable to do that , they would have to sell thousands of pairs bedsides each and every year ... |
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So do you think the AMD and good mark are the same parts?
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Woodall industries makes them all just get Reboxed amd dont make any panel someone else make them amd just puts there name on the parts
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This is starting to get very interesting and I am learning how this repop thing works now.
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I called AMD last night and asked where they get their parts from and the guy said they are made at the AMD plant where we mold and stamp our own parts. We don't buy our stuff from china like others do.
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thats not true amd dont make any parts you think he is going to say where he gets his stuff its all comes from over seas
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amd is a reboxer thats it
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No body mentioned MAR-K in OK City?
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As far as I've heard, Mar-K makes their own step side bed-sides only not fleet-sides.
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I want to swap my step to a fleet. Just need to see what I need for braces for a wood floor on a fleet. I assume someone makes the under floor braces for a conversion from a step to a fleet
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You guys crack me up. I am glad I learned something about aftermarket parts this morning.
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They design the phone, write the software for the phone, and then contract a factory to make "Their" product. Does Apple make phones? Technically; no. But companies DO cut, or fabricate, samples and then send them to different factories for the actual manufacturing under contract. It's THEIR part but they aren't MANUFACTURING anything. This is a common business practice for most companies.......including the "OE's" |
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I just bought two goodmark doors. They came in a tri plus box. With a goodmark sticker on them. From summit.
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On the lighter side I'll give you a little history on how the first repair panels came to be in Taiwan.
In the late 70's there was a young Italian guy in Albany New York whose parents owned a body shop where he worked. On a whim he went with a buddy of his to a trade show in Manhattan. Seeing some of the exhibitors got his mental wheels turning about how to make some money. He got talking with a guy from Taiwan and explained that the rocker panels on all of the square bodied trucks were rusting and that they had to repair a lot of them at their shop. He thought if he could get them to make just the part they needed they could sell a lot of them. The guy told him that for $25,000.00 he could make the tooling and produce them. The guy went home and pleaded with his parents to loan him the money to do the project. His mom finally gave him the 25K and he sent it off to Taiwan along with samples he cut out. Months went by with an occasional phone call or letter (No email or fax then) and then those stopped and he realized that he couldn't get in touch with them anymore and thought he might have been fleeced. He grabbed a passport and plane ticket and took off to Taiwan with no idea how to speak Mandarin and no contacts there. He checked into the Taipei Grand Hotel, got a cab, and set out to the "Factory" that he had met in New York. When he arrived at the factory he found out that his money was gone, there were no parts, no tools, and no real recourse so he returned to the hotel.....completely distraught. That evening he went down to the front of the hotel for some air. He was overcome with emotion about how he was going to explain to his mother that he'd lost their money. As he sat crying on a bench a well dressed young Taiwanese couple going to the hotel for dinner approached him. the Taiwanese guy didn't speak english and the guy from the US didn't speak Chinese so they got someone to interpret for them. He explained what had happened with his family's money and the Taiwanese guy guy said "Don't worry", "My father makes parts for Toyota", "I will help you". They had dinner and when he returned to New York he sent this guy new samples. To his word the guy him made the rocker panels (Without paying again for new tooling) and shipped them to NY. The body shop guy found some people in the bumper business that were interested in trying to distribute them. The rockers were a big hit and he started getting feedback about more parts so they did the cab corners, then the upper wheel arches, then fenders............and on and on. That guy from Taiwan was (Is) named Legion Liao. Almost every factory in this business in Taiwan traces directly back to Legion. They were either people that worked for Legion that opened their own plants, subcontractors that grew into larger factories, etc. We lost the guy from that body shop a couple years ago but every time a patch panel is installed it's owed to a kid from Albany that had an idea 40 years ago. |
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Great story
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Back then one of the more common aftermarket parts in the Northeast were these yellow fiberglass '73-'80 front fenders that used to come out of Canada. Every junkyard in New England carried them. |
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It seems everyone has the bed sides on backorder
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