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01-14-2010, 08:06 AM
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i am considering starting a small custom chassis cunstuction business. i was woundering if there is a cage style chassis you have been wanting. i am capable of building fairly strong chassis that are on the heavy side but can be mor adjustable than many chassis out there. i just wanted to know if there was a market for these types of chassis before i sunk a bunch of money that i dont have (yet) and not make any back. thanks for any replies.
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RE: interested in your opinion
Actually as saturated as the market is right now with aftermarket and knockoff parts being so cheap your market is not strong enough to support your time and cost. Now if the market were a little stronger I would see it, but if you look close the little guy is going out of business daily because they can not compete with China manufacturers and the big guys that can sell things for less than your time alone would cost in the chassis manufacturing. Then if they felt that what you were doing were good for them they would do it for 1/4 of just your time cost to build custom and saturate the market knocking you out.
Your best bet is to build for yourself and your friends if that is what you enjoy doing and not try to compete with the big dogs, because they can pee in taller grass then you can with there ability to have things made for less than you can make it yourself.
Your best bet is to build for yourself and your friends if that is what you enjoy doing and not try to compete with the big dogs, because they can pee in taller grass then you can with there ability to have things made for less than you can make it yourself.
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RE: interested in your opinion
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Not really sure. I have seen frames on ebay out of metal but to make mass production that i don't have an answer.
Not really sure. I have seen frames on ebay out of metal but to make mass production that i don't have an answer.
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RE: interested in your opinion
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Actually as saturated as the market is right now with aftermarket and knockoff parts being so cheap your market is not strong enough to support your time and cost. Now if the market were a little stronger I would see it, but if you look close the little guy is going out of business daily because they can not compete with China manufacturers and the big guys that can sell things for less than your time alone would cost in the chassis manufacturing. Then if they felt that what you were doing were good for them they would do it for 1/4 of just your time cost to build custom and saturate the market knocking you out.
Your best bet is to build for yourself and your friends if that is what you enjoy doing and not try to compete with the big dogs, because they can pee in taller grass then you can with there ability to have things made for less than you can make it yourself.
Actually as saturated as the market is right now with aftermarket and knockoff parts being so cheap your market is not strong enough to support your time and cost. Now if the market were a little stronger I would see it, but if you look close the little guy is going out of business daily because they can not compete with China manufacturers and the big guys that can sell things for less than your time alone would cost in the chassis manufacturing. Then if they felt that what you were doing were good for them they would do it for 1/4 of just your time cost to build custom and saturate the market knocking you out.
Your best bet is to build for yourself and your friends if that is what you enjoy doing and not try to compete with the big dogs, because they can pee in taller grass then you can with there ability to have things made for less than you can make it yourself.
