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The design, layout, unique functionality of Touge is copyright Touge Distribution 2007-2010. Any attempts to immitate the Touge website will be dealt with by relentless legal pursuit. The cost of
development of large scale e-commerce is high. In order to keep Touge clean, fresh and innovative we urge all customers who find immitation sites to report them to us immediately.
This includes some of the industry first ideas such as the tuner map, brand rating system, embedded edu-tainment videos and its filter system.
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Counterfeit and low quality "JDM" immitation goods
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Here at Touge we are proud to offer you only authentic products. We believe in offering you the best prices we can on the best parts Japan has to offer. Unfortunately not
all companies do it for the love. Their are some bad apples, too.
A number of manufacturers have made announcements about ebay shops selling counterfeit goods. Cheap means cheap for a reason. One of the largest costs of auto products (whether it be OEM or after market) is
research and development and product testing. Some of the manufacturers we openly support spend millions of Yen on R+D. Some even fly half way round the the world to carry out testing! Tein have been known to
test their products on the Nurburgring! If you can't justify that extra 30% over buying cheap Taiwanese product that has NEVER been tested in a vigarious environment that is up to you. But please consider the following:
- Cheap bucket seats can cripple you in an accident, you are safer in an OEM seat!
- Cheap suspension components such as camber adjusters have been known to snap, consider that at 150kph
- Cheap big brake kits have been known to crack under stress
- Cheap wheels have a well documented history of spokes snapping, warping and cracking.
The Japanese are known for their relentless product testing and quality control. Other Asian countries however, are not. Please consider this when comparing product pricing.
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The following is a press release from Tein, Co Ltd:
Recently, We have confirmed that some of the eBay stores are guilty of selling COUNTERFEIT TEIN S.TECH springs.
TEIN would like to inform you of the differences between the COUNTERFEIT TEIN S.TECH springs and the Authentic S.TECH.
Difficult-to-tell counterfeit S.tech springs are being heavily marketed. Such replicas may be of bad quality and extremely dangerous!
- NO precise lowering spec (each corner sitting at different heights!)
- Unknown quality, which may lead to sagging, rust, cracking and noise issues
- Unknown Engineering Data
- Extremely dangerous and can lead to suspension failure
We are now in the process of taking legal matters in effort to resolve this issue. We are committed to keep the general public informed as
information becomes available.
 
 
The following companies have also been affected by counterfeit, low quality, immitation goods: Bride, Jun Auto, Spoon, J's Racing, Mugen, HKS, Blitz, Kreissieg, Takata, Cusco, Kaaz, Rays, Advan, Amuse, Apexi. The list goes on and on.
Why should a company that cares very little about your safety benefit from the brand awareness that these companies have worked hard to build? We urge customers to always buy with caution and from reputable companies.
Bottom line: By buying cheaper JDM rip off goods (yes, the ones that sound vaguely Japanese but are not) you are damaging an industry run by
people that love their jobs. The cheap brands manufactured in China, Vietnam, Taiwan are not manufactured by perfectionists. They are manufactured by mass production companies that
make for dozens of cheap, poor quality brands tagged with Japanese sounding names.
Quality costs. It costs because its had intensive testing, its manufactured by highly skilled people, its tested by people that care.
Love JDM. Hate poor quality ripoff rubbish.
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