Agency Power Pulley and their relation with ZPI
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Agency Power Pulley and their relation with ZPI
So I feel it necessary to start this thread b/c I did some bashing on Agency Power in one of the pully threads
This thread might start crap, but let's not hear it. This appears to be good information as it's from Agency Power directly. You guys can take this how you read it. I bought my pullies already, I'm not switching, but feel this is worth taking note of. Take it with a grain of salt.
This is a PM I recieved from Matt at Agency Power
This thread might start crap, but let's not hear it. This appears to be good information as it's from Agency Power directly. You guys can take this how you read it. I bought my pullies already, I'm not switching, but feel this is worth taking note of. Take it with a grain of salt.
This is a PM I recieved from Matt at Agency Power
Originally Posted by Agency_Power_Industries
There are no quality issues with Agency-Power's Scion tC pulley at all. The reason ZPI changed to a version 2.0 pulley is because they couldn't get any more to fill their orders. Agency Power stopped selling their pulley to ZPI. They needed a reason their pulley didn't say Agency Power so they decided to tell a story about quality problems.
It is interesting to me how someone like yourself can post comments telling people to do research on a product without doing research yourself.
We used to do business with Kenny at ZPI, lets just say, they owe us quite a bit of money.
That is the real story. You won't find anyone with our pulley who has had any problems. Call me at Agency-Power if you have any questions. 480-921-7422.
Thanks,
Matt
It is interesting to me how someone like yourself can post comments telling people to do research on a product without doing research yourself.
We used to do business with Kenny at ZPI, lets just say, they owe us quite a bit of money.
That is the real story. You won't find anyone with our pulley who has had any problems. Call me at Agency-Power if you have any questions. 480-921-7422.
Thanks,
Matt
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Originally Posted by ZPIracing
The quality issues with the ZPIracing/Agency power pulleys never reached the end consumer wit the exception of the few isolated issues that we replaced for free. As far as the overall quality of the AP pulleys we have heard rumors from other venues the Scions that speak of the same issues. There are customers on this site that experienced these issue and we replaced there pulley with the V2.0. Have these issues been repaired or not I am not sure and can’t really speculate but I would assume that AP would hear of such issues and hold the manufacturer producing them to a higher standard insisting that these issues be resolved.
As far as the money issues between ZPI and AP there where some, we did owe them and Vivid there parent company owed us. We paid our dues and moved on. The unprofessional manner in which there owner treated the female employees of our business is the ultimate reason why we cut ties. We have never said one bad thing about them nor will we as our character is more than that. We will not lie to a customer or potential customer when they ask as to what the issues where with the V1.0 pulleys.
As far as the money issues between ZPI and AP there where some, we did owe them and Vivid there parent company owed us. We paid our dues and moved on. The unprofessional manner in which there owner treated the female employees of our business is the ultimate reason why we cut ties. We have never said one bad thing about them nor will we as our character is more than that. We will not lie to a customer or potential customer when they ask as to what the issues where with the V1.0 pulleys.
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I guess that wraps it up then. Two companies that disagreed on a potential issue, and just went their separate ways. Business will always be business I guess. What probably would be a better input is to actually get someone who bought an AP pulley, and have them shed some light on whether or not they had problems with the pulley.
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I have sold several of the AP Pulleys, and so far customers seem to like it. The common feedback is that you can feel a small gain, but to be honest no one has had one installed for a long period of time. Hopefully everyone remains problem free.
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well, just to add to this nice and civil discussion, I had the AP pulley that was bought through ZPI and after abot 3 weeks, it began making sueaking noises and began to eat at my belt which would create a burning rubber smell. So take it as you will but i even have video of it squeaking like crazy. ZPI di replace it with the new pulley and have had ZERO probs. Ill look to see if the vid is still on my site
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here is the vid. At about 2:05 is when you hear the squeak. At cold idle it did not squeak at the time of this vid. It began to squeak all the time. I put on my stock pulley for a few weeks while i waited for the new pulley to arrive, and niether squeak.
http://installshowcase.com/Car pics ...ey Problem.wmv
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http://installshowcase.com/Car pics ...ey Problem.wmv
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Originally Posted by Harmonic_tC
here is the vid. At about 2:05 is when you hear the squeak. At cold idle it did not squeak at the time of this vid. It began to squeak all the time. I put on my stock pulley for a few weeks while i waited for the new pulley to arrive, and niether squeak.
http://installshowcase.com/Car pics ...ey Problem.wmv
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http://installshowcase.com/Car pics ...ey Problem.wmv
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Originally Posted by Harmonic_tC
here is the vid. At about 2:05 is when you hear the squeak. At cold idle it did not squeak at the time of this vid. It began to squeak all the time. I put on my stock pulley for a few weeks while i waited for the new pulley to arrive, and niether squeak.
http://installshowcase.com/Car pics ...ey Problem.wmv
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http://installshowcase.com/Car pics ...ey Problem.wmv
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Does anyone else with the AP pulley have this problem.
I'm thinking about installing mine tomorrow, but I wanna see some more feedback from others with the AP pulley.
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WOW THAT SOUNDS JACKED
For those that the link didn't work for, use IE instead of Mozilla or whatever you're using.
If you are using Mozilla and for some reason uninstalled IE, then paste into Mozilla and %20 should show up in the space between "Pulley Problem.wmv" For some reason, Mozilla adds %5 or something like that to the end of the link. Remove that then hit enter again....your download prompt should show up.
For those that the link didn't work for, use IE instead of Mozilla or whatever you're using.
If you are using Mozilla and for some reason uninstalled IE, then paste into Mozilla and %20 should show up in the space between "Pulley Problem.wmv" For some reason, Mozilla adds %5 or something like that to the end of the link. Remove that then hit enter again....your download prompt should show up.
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I dont understand peoples logic...I buy a product from someone who specializes in making that product, and I hope that many other people use the same logic. NonStopTuning builds pulleys for a living....if Mike from NonStopTuning was like..."yo Vito, I just got this brand new meth injection kit we are putting out, we have lil to no previous experience building these kits, but we are gonna sell them anyways"...you know what, chances are that I wouldnt jump on the meth kit regarldess of how strong my ties are with the guys over at Non Stop Tuning...its just common sense people 
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Originally Posted by Simplyscion
I dont understand peoples logic...I buy a product from someone who specializes in making that product, and I hope that many other people use the same logic. NonStopTuning builds pulleys for a living....if Mike from NonStopTuning was like..."yo Vito, I just got this brand new meth injection kit we are putting out, we have lil to no previous experience building these kits, but we are gonna sell them anyways"...you know what, chances are that I wouldnt jump on the meth kit regarldess of how strong my ties are with the guys over at Non Stop Tuning...its just common sense people
What's the diffrence between buying from people who specialize in making a product, and buying from someone who sells products of another company that specializes in making that product....Nothing, that's what.
It's called being a Re-seller. Just a man in the middle, selling another companies product. No difference sir.
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well, that brings it to my next point cause I knew that was gonna be the obvious reply...why wouldn't you buy the product from the original company to begin with then?
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Originally Posted by Simplyscion
well, that brings it to my next point cause I knew that was gonna be the obvious reply...why wouldn't you buy the product from the original company to begin with then?
That's easy. Cost are reduced. Don't believe me? Call AIT Racing and ask them how much are the N1 Style CF hoods for the Scion TC. After you get the price, go to GoFastPerformance.com(who is a re-seller for AIT Racing) and look up how much the N1 Style CF hoods are for the Scion tC on thier site. Notice a difference?