UFO plastics - Everyone reply!

[250rsteve]

If you can get them to make tecate plastic ( headlight cover and shrouds ) I think nearly every T3 owner would purchase it without question. If this stuff is selling for $400+ for each piece new on ebay, 50-100 for good quality new aftermarket pieces would seem like nothing. Right now someone has to buy a parts bike to make it reasonable to get some plastics and sell off the rest of it. I bought my tecate for less than the HL cover and right shroud went for on ebay a couple of weeks ago. And get them to make those airbox covers for the T3 again.

[Jeb]

UFO had a pretty cool set of aftermarket shrouds for the 86 KXT back in the day. Once the 3WW main page comes back up, I believe there's a Tecate hop-up article that shows them.

I've sent a couple emails to UFO in the past and never got a response. I hope you have better luck.

Oh, and R_Nutt is right. It costs too much for most MFG's to make the complex large injection molds for ATV fenders.

[Lomax]

I would love to see another fender company out there besides maier. Maier is a good fender but they dont have the options out there I would like to see, if you dont buy a honda, then your chances are slim in maiers lineup.

[willcamach]

i think it would be great if they re peoduced three wheeler plastics and i would definetly buy some for my projects as long as the price was reasonable.

[Thrwhlr3]

UFO plastics would be a good adition to the aftermarket 3 wheeler parts selection. maier seems to be capitalizing the market with poor plastics. but what else can we buy .I will buy a complete set from them for my 350x.

[grundlegrabber]

Maier is not so bad now that they came out with the shiny version, but it still don't come close to OEM quality. Haven't used UFO much, but it does seem a bit nocer than Maier. Maier's molds are different than the OE, fenders just don't look as nice and you can tell right away it's aftermarket. If someone would remake all the OE plastics that are now discontinued and make them to original OE specs, I think there would be a pretty good market for them. I know I'd be buying some, with the outrageous cost of stock plastics these days! Also it would be nice to have available things like the long lost 250R short course shrouds. OE plastic for some of the newer quads is pretty cheap (400EX for example) and maybe that's why they can't make those fenders cheap enough, but considering $240 for a stock 250R rear fender, there's gotta be a way!

[HRC1]

Not to rain on anyone's paraid, but i consulted a good friend of mine who is a injection mold maker by trade, and a 3 wheeler (about 10 of em') owner as well, and he said a mold for a set of rear fenders would cost over $100,000 and weigh between 6-10 thousand pounds. So, for that mold to actually pay for itself and start producing profit, you would have to sell so many parts, it's not cost effective for a company to make that investment and hope everyone with that model would want new fenders. IF, and thats a huge if, it did happen, it would probably only be for a VERRY popular trike, like the 250r. I doubt tri-z's or tecate's would have a chance. But..... if someone did make oem like fenders for my bikes, 250r, 350x and 200x, all 85 and 86, i would defenitly buy them. It's nice to dream though.

[Dammit!]

Did they ever make them back in the day? If so I would think they have a few molds around. Hell the OEM's must have them sitting around rotting.

[Yamahauler]

my friend could get those for his 85 250SX and 200M badly, his 250 has fenders made out of steel boat fenders, they're really noisy

[Huffa]

my friend could get those for his 85 250SX and 200M badly, his 250 has fenders made out of steel boat fenders, they're really noisy

Steel boat fenders? Does it float?

[Jeb]

Not to rain on anyone's paraid, but i consulted a good friend of mine who is a injection mold maker by trade, and a 3 wheeler (about 10 of em') owner as well, and he said a mold for a set of rear fenders would cost over $100,000 and weigh between 6-10 thousand pounds. So, for that mold to actually pay for itself and start producing profit, you would have to sell so many parts, it's not cost effective for a company to make that investment and hope everyone with that model would want new fenders. IF, and thats a huge if, it did happen, it would probably only be for a VERRY popular trike, like the 250r. I doubt tri-z's or tecate's would have a chance. But..... if someone did make oem like fenders for my bikes, 250r, 350x and 200x, all 85 and 86, i would defenitly buy them. It's nice to dream though.

EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I've been saying that on here for years. Only thing I can add is the size of injection molding machine needed after the mold is built. There's people that can run it, but you better be making tons of parts.

It's not cost effective for a MFG's to do so.

[willcamach]

guess i better get my order in to maier before they stop making the plastics themselves.

[chris200x]

guess i better get my order in to maier before they stop making the plastics themselves.

Not to worry...I'll keep them busy!