NOS Maier Tecate Shrouds

[NICKG]

there is one Maier. What happens is this, when maier makes these fenders, they do them in runs. that means that they make like 100 or more peices. they do this because to make the part they need to shut the machine down and retool it, this takes production time...(time that they can be making other parts and money) I would be willing to bet that he had a problem with stock at his local wharehouse and it was being shipped from another one. I doubt that he stocked them, he probaly called a parts distributer like tucker rocky or some thing. This a very common tactic used in the autoparts buisness(I know because that is what I do) I can tell you that Nacs does not stock any trike fenders (save 250r) and they have a huge stock on maier stuff. If you need them, best get them before they are gone

[ScottZJ]

Yeah I am currently buying stock OEM T-3 plastic whenever I get a chance to have some spare change....just for the future. Right now there is still plenty but that might not be the case in a year or so down the line..........peace

[NICKG]

on the stock plastic, I would advise you to buy as much now as you can. Kawasaki is discontinuing it (this means that what is there is it) and ther is not that many peices left(like 7 rear fenders and 15 fronts and like 30 left shrouds )last I spoke with them (i called kawasaki corprate looking to find out what it would take to buy these moulds at the end of their lifespans and found that they were already scrapped.)

[ScottZJ]

Yeah I just bought 2 rears 3 fronts and 8 left side shrouds

[NICKG]

best place to get oem kawasaki parts is definetly Bob Tracy World of Cycles call Mark, he stocks a lot of tecate parts and is very familiar with them. best of all they give a 30% discount on kawasaki, suzuki amd ktm parts.Great service too 800-860-0686

[GreenBoy]

Just two more things.....
Where did the guy on ebay (selling the white headlight shell and white right plastic) get his molds from ???
I know that the Tecate was made in Lincoln/NE, did he get the OEM molds ???
If so why does he not make the parts in green, instead of making them white and painting them green (hard to find a matching material) ???

Some of you guys know that I have access to CNC machines and a little knowledge in making technical drawings.My buddy is a technical engineer and has a postprocessor, so making the programm for milling the molds is not the problem.
I might even know a company that could make the parts, biggest problem
might be the matching green color and I think that at least the first 50-100 covers are crap before you get usable parts out of the machine.
I will try a little more and maybe find a way to make my own parts.....

I told Jeb about the guy from Greek, I did never hear from this guy again.But he sent me pics of white right+left shrouds,rear fenders,front fenders and headlight shells that he bought for a top notch price in Greek.
I think 260$ for the whole set !!!!
See the sample pics......

It´s really sad that he doesn´t reply to my emails anymore............
cya guys
Hagen