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ZookBOB - An Introduction

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21 Feb 2017 14:10 - 21 Feb 2017 14:46 #178325 by X8GGY
With kind permission from Martin...

If you haven't spotted me by now... I am "ZookBOB" on eBay -



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ZookBOB - "Bits On a Budget", a nod to Bits4Vits and also my full name is Robert David Jones, so the BOB is also a shortening of my first name too.

As Bits4Vits, I've always been a merchant that "buys-to-sell" whereas a lot of my current competition "make-to-sell", so I've struggled to compete on prices as margins are obviously a lot lower when you are reselling other company's products. I also found it difficult to compete with the budget eBay sellers out there ;)

So, over Christmas, I was mulling the whole thing over and decided that I too would begin to "make-to-sell"... In Bits4Vits heyday years I'd invested in tools to offset some of the profits I made back then, so I've got a decent MIG welder, a chop saw, pillar drill, pipe bender, sheet bender, angle grinders, etc... And as my Dad was a steel fabricator all his life, and I've been spannering with Suzuki 4x4 Vehicles for the past 27 years, making stuff has always been "in my blood"...

So, I spent my days off, Wednesdays and Sundays, in January and early February making Bits in my garage...

And now have the start of a range of parts that I make and sell myself...

eBay LINK

So far there's -

Front and Rear Shock Spacers / Repositioners
Rear Shock Spacers / Repositioners with a bush at the bottom on the axle mounting
Bump Stop Spacers
Simple and cheap front shock spacers made from box section
A Steering Damper kit for road-going Jimnys
And a HD one for offroad Jimnys
Steering Spacers for after a bodylift is fitted
Brake Brackets for suspension and bodylifts
Transfer Box Mounting Brackets to replace those flimsy cast ones
Transfer Box Bush'n'Bolt stack mounts
Seat Spacers for us tall people with long legs
and budget spacer based Suspension Lift Kits

In the pipeline, I also have -

Castor Correction Bushes

and other Bits as things start to sell, and my skills develop ;)

This is a completely separate business to Bits4Vits for a couple of reasons... Bits4Vits has always been branded as "inexpensive quality products", so I didn't want to introduce a budget range onto the store, and Bits4Vits continues to sell a large proportion of products overseas where the competition sell higher priced products... in the UK there are more cut-throat, sorry, cut-price :lol: retailers, so "ZookBOB" is just on the UK eBay site..

So, with thanks to Martin for allowing me to post this (a donation to the forum fund will of course be made too), I just wanted to introduce my new budget range of parts to the Jimny-massive that congregate on this great forum...

eBay LINK

Dave
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21 Feb 2017 14:39 - 21 Feb 2017 14:39 #178328 by X8GGY
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21 Feb 2017 14:48 #178331 by Gazguzzler
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Hi Dave, looks very neatly made, well done and good luck with new range!

Phil (I bought wheels and tyres from you)

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21 Feb 2017 14:58 #178334 by X8GGY
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Gazguzzler wrote: Hi Dave, looks very neatly made, well done and good luck with new range!

Phil (I bought wheels and tyres from you)


Thanks Phil B)

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21 Feb 2017 15:27 #178338 by Daniel30
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Sounds like a good plan Dave good luck ;)

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21 Feb 2017 16:03 #178340 by X8GGY
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Daniel30 wrote: Sounds like a good plan Dave good luck ;)


Thanks Dan ;)

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21 Feb 2017 16:16 - 21 Feb 2017 16:30 #178341 by jackonlyjack
Wishing you all the best with your new venture Dave
keep the products coming B)

Jack

i see i'm your only follower
common guys show your support ;)
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21 Feb 2017 16:43 #178344 by TomDK
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Good stuff Dave :)

Since you have all those tools. I come to think of one thing. We need a good quality HD winch bumper. As it is now, there is only the flimsy bumper fra KAP and other similar looking ones and then the ARB bumper.

Would be great to see something in between at around £350-450. Perhaps like the first ORA HD bumper. Excellent bumper and not nearly as heavy as the ARB one.

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21 Feb 2017 17:28 #178350 by X8GGY
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jackonlyjack wrote: Wishing you all the best with your new venture Dave
keep the products coming B)

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Thanks Jack :)

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21 Feb 2017 17:30 #178351 by X8GGY
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TomDK wrote: Good stuff Dave :)

Since you have all those tools. I come to think of one thing. We need a good quality HD winch bumper. As it is now, there is only the flimsy bumper fra KAP and other similar looking ones and then the ARB bumper.

Would be great to see something in between at around £350-450. Perhaps like the first ORA HD bumper. Excellent bumper and not nearly as heavy as the ARB one.


Thanks Tom ;)

Ahhh, like Bits4Vits, I only do small "Bits", bits I can store in my shop's storeroom and ship easily (and quickly) through my Post Office...

I'm pretty sure Russ over at JimnyBits will have a winch bumper in development though ;)

Yes, I liked the first generation ORA winch bumper... B)

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21 Feb 2017 17:34 #178354 by 1066Boy
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Good luck with it all Dave. I love to see somebody take the plunge and go for it. :)
Your bits look spot on in the pictures. Hope it all pans out well for you.

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21 Feb 2017 18:58 #178360 by X8GGY
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1066Boy wrote: Good luck with it all Dave. I love to see somebody take the plunge and go for it. :)
Your bits look spot on in the pictures. Hope it all pans out well for you.


Thanks Allan :woohoo:

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