BTC

I think GM did implement a core charge on Opti's within the last year, or so. The last time I priced an opti with Jason, there was a core charge. The first time I priced an opti with him, there was not. I'm not sure how thepartsladi gets around it, but I'm not sure how all of those charges work anyway.

94YellowTAGT

With this opti do i need to take it apart and lock tight (sp?) some screws or anything?

bowtiedad_z28

Yes, you should take the cap off and put loctite on the rotor screws.

raroz28

LOL, you're making me embarrassed for you, man. If you haven't talked to Jason in the past year, you are out of the Optispark loop. I talked to him back in August, and there was a core. I asked him about it, and he said it's something they just started doing recently (at that time). I think it was $50 or $75. Also, his opti was a lot pricier than thepartsladi opti (my out the door price was over $400).

I'm not saying anything bad about Jason Cromer, he did a great thing helping a lot of guys save money on Opti's over the years, but there's a new game in town, and he's selling the same OEM part BRAND NEW for less money and NO CORE charge.

jtarp

What about ignition_dk on ebay. Anyone had experience with those optis?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...AVRI&viewitem=

2QUIK6

That may be, was last summer when I bought a few before the price jump happened. But, I looked up thepartsladi's items on ebay and those optis have a black front on them just the same as the all_ignition crap stuff has.. The real GM ones have a tan front unless that is something that has changed recently too. Looks like all of the black front ones I find from various sellers are cheaper and all of the tan fronts ones at GMPP, ScogginD, Summit are about $75-$100 more so you tell me which is which...
I'm sure thepartsladi buys a higher volume of parts from Delphi than GM so she can give better pricing than GM wholesale on genuin GM parts
But then the link above has a tan front ones it appears at least in the pic for $90 new.....so who knows, buyer beware when the price is too good to be true, The Chinese make great immitation items....

raroz28

Are you being serious right now man? Just admit you are wrong (you don't have to do it outloud on the forum) and stop trying to scare people into thinking they're going to get some chinese imitation opti from thepartsladi. It is the best place to get a genuine OEM opti, period. This is a proven fact. It is NOT a chinese imitation, or a cheap reman'd unit.

You bring up the colors, then you go onto say that the $90 knockoff is yellow "so who knows?" Dude, obviously the color doesn't matter.

I will say it again. It is a BRAND NEW in the BOX FROM DELPHI OEM LT1 Distributor. Period.

I don't know what satisfaction you will get in these hard times when somebody is trying to get their car back on the road, and you refer them to a place that will charge them an extra $100 for the same opti, then have to ship their core in.

Why are you spreading buyer beware when you have not bought from the ebay dealer?

The fact is people know what they're getting when they order from thepartsladi, contrary to what you're saying. There was a time when people were skeptical (hell I know I was, that's why I called Jason over the summer). I didn't even pull the trigger until a month ago when it was very clear that he had earned a great reputation as a brand new OEM opti dealer.

raroz28

I can't say anything bad about it, but I will say that I wouldn't go with a reman'd or knockoff company for this part.

TrybalRage

+1 for thepartsladi

Fast shipping, runs great.

BTC

I haven't had any personal experience with them, but for 89.99 I would expect it to fire at least a couple of the cylinders on a pretty consistent basis. On a positive note, at least the vendor isn't trying to pass it off as an authentic Delco/Delphi distributor.

2QUIK6

Hey great if there is another source for GM optis other than Jason. At the time of the posting there was only yourself saying get it from thepartsladi.
I have some spares already, so sorry if I don't have time to keep up on all the latest opti news even when I don't need one.
I never said thepartsladi sold immitations, only to beware of ebay sellers selling this at too good to be true prices. I've had no experience with thepartsladi. I have had experience with other ebay sellers that sell things at discount prices, all_ignition being one of several and they were all crap. I know what I'm getting from Jason and know that I won't be taking the item back off once installed.
So cheers to having another good source so hopefully more than 2 chime in saying good things about them.

raroz28

It isn't just 2. Do a search on thepartsladi. You will see that many people are using it. Hell, even one of the most respected gearheads in the community, Injuneer, will refer people to thepartsladi. If you don't want to take my word, and you'd rather just keep going back and forth, maybe you'll take his.

And if you aren't keeping up on opti news, then you really have no merit in this thread to argue facts like Jason Cromer and other GM dealers are now implementing core charges.

shoebox

All you have to do is search for "thepartsladi" to know the score.

madhatter

FYI when I ordered a Delphi opti from my parts house at my shop it had the extremely dark brown(almost black) cap as well. Genuine Delphi from a Delphi dealer.

And yes wholesalers can sell stuff cheaper than a wholesale GM dealer any day of the week, especially if they are selling Delphi or any other OE supplier. I would say Delco only manufactures about a quarter of what they sell. The rest is made by Bosch, Delphi, Bendix, etc. An ebay wholesaler buys directly from the supplier and sells. Gm buys it from the supplier, rebrands it, and then sells it. They also have to pay for a physical store, employees, advertising, etc. Thepartsladi has a Wal-mart business with higher volume less profit. The dealer just wants you to drop the soap.

Only reason everyone is defensive is because that seller has done a great service to all of us avoiding paying insane GM costs. People would be upset if you slammed any person with a good rep on this site. My opinion is don't slam unless you have personal experience.

BTC

It's not the same seller, but the pricing, and more than likely the product, is similar. Randomly firing a couple of cylinders may have been an overestimation.

http://www.ls1tech.com/forums/lt1-lt...need-opti.html