Buyer beware
Mensajero.....After perusing many websites I settled on performancepartz.com to buy a set of spark plug wires. He listed a set of universal MSD 8.5mm wires that would fit our 99 RAV4 and supposedly all of the hardware came with them. I figured as long as the coil ends could be assembled I could figure out how to put them together. I had found no listing of these wires fitting before, but assumed something had materialized...to my great benefit.

Upon receipt of the wires, I found there were no coil ends whatsoever that would fit Cubby. So I tried to call the number on the receipt that had to be used to get a return authorization. The number was out of service so I called an operator to find out what was going on. She said the number was unassigned, but tried many different ways, through company name, etc. etc. to get me a useable number to no avail. I emailed his site and never heard a reply. Finally, after filing a complaint with PayPal and sending another email 21 or 22 days later, he finally responded. I don't consider this good business practice. My problems arose from impatience and because I won't leave well enough alone so after waiting 17 days without a response from him, I disassembled my factory spark plug wires, taking all the 5mm hardware off, modifying the coil ends, boots, and covers to fit 8.5mm wire. After that was done, I took the spark plug phenolic tubes, along with the boots, off. I had to bore the phenolic tube centers out to fit the 8.5mm wire, modify the valve cover boots, etc. then assemble the whole thing into new 8.5mm wires, using only four wires from the kit without even using the spark plug ends from the kit. Obviously, when he finally got ahold of me, I was done. I was :evil: What's done is done. He admitted to me that he knew the phone number was no good, yet supposedly, according to the invoice, that was the course of action I was supposed to take. Since I received the product from him, I have found out from MSD that they weren't supposed to fit and I looked at the site last night and the wording is now changed on the listing. I suppose if anybody is really at fault, it's MSD for somehow letting incorrect information to be used. Come to find out, I guess earlier RAV 4s had distributor caps like the old MR2 application. I didn't know this and his site didn't help. My son has purchased from him, too, without problems. As a matter of fact, that's where I found out about him. But because of the lie about the phone number and now the site reading differently, I still feel I was wronged. I did ask for some form of compensation for having to build wires from my parts. He told me it was a universal kit and I should've expected to have to build them. I don't consider 6 hours labor, using 99.9 % my parts, a universal kit. 'Nuff said. :cheers:
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