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Reply to "JPS - one unhappy customer's advice."

Boy this is disturbing! I was on this sight about 6 months ago.I left and came back. I find these cars appealing. They look really cool and I've read they drive better then the original ones. I am still considering buying one. It is normal to want to find out about what they cost and which company makes a good one. IM appears to be the best but the most expensive.A stripper speester appears to start at or above 40 grand. Then you have Vintage,Beck,and Thunder Ranch offering products in the mid 30's reasonably optioned out. You then have SAS that also offers a mid 30 product but with a water cooled Subaru engine as standard. The concept appears to offer some maintenance advantages over the others. All the companies appear to offer a warranty (although I'm unsure about IM) and offer good customer service. Then you get to JPS. Great websight. Also offers the clearest info on products and prices. They also seem to be the cheapest. A well optined car for under 30 grand. This leads me to want to say 'you get what you pay for".However I have read enough reviews to know that JPS has made some good cars. Being that these are custom built "new cars" there is always ging to be variations in the build from unit to unit. JPS appears to be the most severe in this respect. I read 6 months ago about Tom Dewalt and Kelly Frazer's issues with JPS. And here it is still going on. John Steele has been in business long enough to know that you need to stand behind your products.It seems to me other then poor build quality the only way a coupe could leak over an inch of water in the cabin would be poking holes in it around the windshield or going over rutted road causing the floor pans to tear or separate. I'm not buying that scenario so I can only assume it is a lack of sealing around the front or rear glass or gaps in and around floor pans due to poor build quality.The fact that Mr. Steele will not talk to Tom further about it destroys any confidence I had in JPS. I guess I'll have to spend some more money when I'm ready to buy. I'm deleting their web sight from my computer.
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