info on ION

[wicked]

I just wanted to know what people thoughts were on ION,not thiers sales or service,but what kind of company they are.

just wanted to know cause I just got some interesting news about thier company,but I need to know if it will hurt then or if it's already known.I don't want to be to mean on accident.

having to do with location,staff,and who makes thier products.

 

[xxxcool21]

i hear good products, just takes a lifetime and half after you've paid to get your stuff

 

[ELEmental59437]

spill the news bro.. is it the info regarding a college of some sort?

 

[122 Vega]

You mena how people have to wait for months for thier goods because of "waiting for bubble wrap" and "border problems" and other bulls***? The best one was the "chemical explosion down the street". I had considered buying some of thier stuff, but it seems like they don't try very hard to do things in a timely manner.

Britt

 

[SpicyMchaggis]

Lets hear it man! There is a lot of negative and positive publicity on this forum about them..Great products..but overpriced..takes a long time to get them..rabble rabble rabble..if you have info, by all means share!

 

[FSDET]

You mena how people have to wait for months for thier goods because of "waiting for bubble wrap" and "border problems" and other bulls***? The best one was the "chemical explosion down the street". I had considered buying some of thier stuff, but it seems like they don't try very hard to do things in a timely manner.

Britt

LMAO!!!!!

 

[flat_black]

I bought the N/A downpipe from them, and it's a wonderful product. But it was made by Brullen for them, not by them in particular; They have no particular 'shop', really. They just resell other products, made by others. They were responsive to communications, but yes, the delays were quite annoying. Especially when I had a blown secondary cat, and needed to replace it before I went insane.

They've been around in the Subaru world for quite some time, too, so you know.

 

[wicked]

spill the news bro.. is it the info regarding a college of some sort?

well I geuss they are just some colledge dudes that take our orders give,have a company make the products,jack up the price,and sells them to us.

that would explain the crappy customer service,and the long wait for products.(upbum)

I didn't know if anyone knew or not,or if it's even a big deal at all,butI know I would never go through them,when I am capable of calling some performance shops on my own,and gettin my own s*** made the same without the markup.


don't know if this thread even matters to anyone,but I just thought people would like to know were thier money went(to others education?)

 

[mspeed101]

Damn Canadians! lol

 

[wicked]

Damn Canadians! lol

(lol)

 

[alexlitov]

that's like super old news....just look at their adress.....

 

[speedhawaii]

yup i figured since the address. thats why their fmic is also listed as kinetic or something

 

[mspdfreak]

Yeah, I don't care how good their s*** is, I'm not waiting months to get my part. Plus, you pay out the ass.

 

[terbow]

i think thats kinda dissapointing they dont make their own stuff and get credit for it in mags and such, but the fact is, they were the only ones offering a true turboback(at the moment), with a large gain, expensive or not. I dont see an issue with it other than them not actually making it and getting national credit, but lots of companies outsource, its like when we found out the singer for c+c music factory wasnt really skinny and sexy, she was large but we still love them

 

[terbow]

but yea the wait times and price are kinda silly.

 

[daedalus]

so anybody got the info on who actually manufactures the turbo back and what we could actually get it for by going through some other dealer?

I'm all for buisness, but raping an entire community by holding them hostage at 1299.99 a pop is just bad buisness when your probably profiting 400+ on each transaction...

 

[MSPinVA]

well, I wonder how long it will take for them to come in here all gangbusters and tell us about how "true" they have really been with us, since they keep going on and on and on about their "true" turbo-back overpriced garbage. . .

 

[terbow]

i wouldnt say its garbage, its still nice work. i hope this thread doesnt turn into a bash fest. i think its irrelevent that they dont make it. i mean its nice to know but as far as price goes. what can u do? nothing. even the street unit one is 1300. Thats the price of 3" turbobacks for the msp. It be one thing if we had 60,000 cars but its limited production. limited production runs always cost more.

 

[thunder]

Damn Canadians! lol

I'd make an adjustment; Damn Albertans!! LOL

On a different note: I don't think it matters if they outsource everything, they make the design, R&D, testing... That's quite a normal thing to do but it's slower for sure unless you have oustanding supplyers.

 

[iON Performance]

wicked<SCRIPT type=text/javascript> vbmenu_register("postmenu_1203444", true); </SCRIPT> - that's quite interesting, we didn't know that we're a bunch of college students that are just reselling parts that we design. In anycase, the mailing address is at the UofC since we have a co-op program partnership with the Mechanical & Chemical engineering faculty. Our R&D and manufacturing facilities are in an industrial area of the city; and hence we do not do any retail. Our core business is providing R&D/design work for other companies (ie: building prototypes etc).

122 Vega - Like it or not, there was actually a chemical explosion across the street from our facilities. This was on the local news; caused the area to be blocked off for almost 1 week till everything was cleaned up properly.

flat_black - Actually Brullen manufactures some of our parts under contract; things that do not require alot of highly skilled manufacturing techniques are sent out their way so that we have less on our plates to deal with.

speedhawaii<SCRIPT type=text/javascript> vbmenu_register("postmenu_1204202", true); </SCRIPT> - The FMIC kits are co-manufactured with Kinetic.


terbow<SCRIPT type=text/javascript> vbmenu_register("postmenu_1204321", true); </SCRIPT> - Where does anyone get this "info" anyways? The exhaust systems are all manufactured in house, from start to finish. And yes you're right about the limited quanity production; there are ~3500 MSP's in North America; we've factored our R&D costs etc over ~300 units which represents an approximate 8.6% of the total market which is a very accurate/conservative estimation.

daedalus - For all those skeptics out there, why don't we put up a challenge; if you can design, fabricate and produce our exhaust system for the cost that you were implying that our system costs to manufacture (including factoring in R&D costs/systen)~$900US, we will pay you to do it for us. Simple as that. Are you up to the challege? And FYI, MSRP on the exhaust is $1599US. Forum members automatically get a $200US discount. If the USD was as strong as it was 2 yrs ago, prices would definately reflect that. Unfortunately the USD relative to CAD is still on the decline.