Accolade body kits

[evo9990]

hey people has any one bought or did business with this company before? and are they trust able, because iam about to buy a rear body kit for my lancer ralliart. So i would like your help on weather i would but from them or not.
thanks ali

[tjoz]

Yes two people here have dealt with Accolade; Blanka and myself. Accolade can be a potential nightmare for you. Its expensive and your pretty much going into it blind for most of the part. Dealing with them is a big gamble as you will be putting down a lot of money.

Accolade are very helpful up until the point where they get your money then you wont hear from them. For the next few months (or year, it can take that long...) you will get nothing from them at all. At some point, your Sea Pre Alert notice will arrive in the mail. As soon as you have this you get on to them and they will email you all the correspondence. At this point they are back to being very responsive and pretty quick too. This area is needed for customs and brokers. Very important you are quick with this as this part can very quickly become quite expensive.

Once you have your kit, the fun is not over yet. As your getting the rear bar your lucky; their rear bars are pretty good; very few fitment issues (may stick out slightly wider than normal but its only around 2mm at most) and the quality with it is pretty solid. You do need to be careful with the mounts as they can break easily. The rear bar though you wont have any problems with it.

If you do get more than just a rear bar you will find the rest of the parts are not as good. They did improve their build quality and fitment issues with their CJ Lancer kits. They made changes to them just over a year ago so you do get the benefit of better R&D.

If anything is broken it can easily be repaired. One thing with the Accolade kits they are so easy to fix. Ive had plenty practice

[evo9990]

WOW 1 YEAR!! THATS heaps cause i was thinking of either getting an exhaust system or the rear bumper of the evo x! But that is good that you have told me those few points it really helped cause i might buy from zero to a hundred, they also sell good body kits but iam still not sure, accolade gave me the final price for the rear bumper and the spoiler all painted as the same color as my car which is black for 850. Is that a good price? for the spoiler bumper + shipped? your body kit looks nice to so i assume they are a good company, but 1 year that is alot or even less! it would be hard to wait that long just for it. It is a malaysian company so it must be near from here or maybe singapore. So it must come quickly, the only thing iam afraid of is not getting my body kit or losing the money i sent

[tjoz]

They are in Sri Lanka. I waited 4months for mine, Blanka waited a lot longer for his kit. I got mine around 2 1/2 years ago. The shipping is whats expensive; the kit itself will only be a small amount of the price. You may not have to pay as much in customs and broker fees as the value of everything is under 1k but you can double the price to be able to take the kit home. Then you have to paint it and install it which will cost more.

All up your looking at around the 2k mark from start to finish and months of waiting.

Also the Evo rear bar will not fit properly on an RA or normal Lancers. There is a company is Singapore or Malaysia that do make an Evo rear bar to fit the normal and RA Lancers though.