Honda GCV160 equivalent/replacement options?

[bertsmobile1]

it appears they have their own website, so thats a good sig as well as a contact form.

Machinery Petrol Engines

Petrol Engines - Machinery Petrol Engines

www.iketa.com.au

No it is not a sign of anything other than they bought a computer & some softwear.
There is no street address listed anywhere so you can not see where "our Warehouse in Melbourne" actually is.
I can guarrantee it will be a 3PL set up so you end up at a DHL / Fedex / Allied etc warehouse and some where in the place will be 20 or so pallets of their engines.
Note they charge a $ 8.95 pick up fee.
That is what DHL currently charges for picking stock out of their Sydney warehouse for despatch
Note also you can not send your own courier due to "15 minute pick up time ".
That tells me it is a cut rate 3PL center .
We used to charge the client ( person who owned the goods ) $ 4.80 picking fee $ 2.50 invoicing fee & $ 2.00 dock fee for pulling their goods off the racks then despatching them to the end purchaser out of sequence . We also charged $ 10/ month per pallet storage if the good arrived on pallets & $ 30 per pallet if they were loose packed in the container & we palletised and in those cases there was also pallet hire which was another $ 3.00 to $ 5.00 per week depending upon what brand of pallet was available .
My big change was to keep sound pallets ( we charged a disposal fee if the good arrived on single use pallets ) and rent them out at $ 2 week
This sounds pretty small but there was 250,000 pallet spaces in the big warehouse so that works out near $ 1,000,000 a month which was pretty close to the rent we paid on the site .

Note that they only offer 6 month warranty on goods and require transit damage to be reported within 24 hours.
The law in OZ is 12 months warranty on all retail goods but because they are sold via a BS auction retail laws do not apply .
Because of the way Ebay is set up, if you bought one & it fell apart in 8 weeks then you have past the feed back cut off date .
So there is no way to leave negative feedback that the engines are trash and wear out after 10 hours of use
All the purchaser would know from ebay is what the customer got was the same as what was listed & it arrived in reasonable time for a reasonable fee .

If you buy from Ali-Baba ( not Ali-Express ) then you can make a complaint up to a full year after the purchase .
Thus what you buy through Ali-Baba is generally of much better quality than what you buy off ebay which is really a lucky dip at best .

The engine that pp4wd bought is most likely not Aust EPA compliant either , not that it matters for a log splitter engine ( or a mower for that matter ) .

 

[Bob372]

There is no HF down here because our retail laws have a manditory 12 month warranty , unlike the USA where most of them expire the second you walk out of the door .
Thus flogging off absolute trash is not an available business plan.
The same laws have protected us from the perils of Walmart as well
And probably went a long way towards the failure of the Lowes / Woolworths Masters chain although the total inepitude of 99% of Australian managers & all directors would not have helped . I think one of those rejects is now destroying the biggest local after market parts suppliers, RGS .
What is wrong with the Honda ?

Wait, what?

Most warranties don't expire in the US when you walk out the door, but the great thing is is that you have a choice. Spend less and take your chances or spend more and get a decent warranty. It's up to you! It's called freedom of choice. It's a wonderful thing.

Do you really feel the need for the government to protect you from retail decisions like this? How can you possibly feel better by letting the government take that choice away unless you feel that people are too stupid and need to be protected by the government? That's crazy talk.

 

[StarTech]

Wait, what?

Most warranties don't expire in the US when you walk out the door, but the great thing is is that you have a choice. Spend less and take your chances or spend more and get a decent warranty. It's up to you! It's called freedom of choice. It's a wonderful thing.

Do you really feel the need for the government to protect you from retail decisions like this? How can you possibly feel better by letting the government take that choice away unless you feel that people are too stupid and need to be protected by the government? That's crazy talk.

No but they make it as hard as they can at times to get one honored.

Bu '86 I brought a brand new Plymouth Sundance with 12,000 bumper to bumper (I got it in writing, luckily; not just their little hand out). With 800 miles on the car it broke down. The dealer service center was telling me it wasn't cover by the warranty. I nearly ended up suing them and Plymouth over it just to get it repaired.

 

[SamB]

Looks like a Honda clone of some sort.
Don't know either the vendor nor the brand
Should work good enough for a log splitter
Just remember you are splitting Aussie hard woods and they are HARD
A lot of the cheap n nasty Chinese imports fail big time when set to work on river reds, iron barks or even the softer sydney grey gums.
They are downgraded copies of splitters designed to work on USA oregon, spruce & firs that all have strait grain and split clean if you look at them hard .

And of course Welcome to the best place to live on what is left of the planet .( not that I am biased ) .

You're not biased. I'd wager you'd be 100% correct. If anyone reading these posts were born down under,I wonder who'd opt to come above 0 degrees latitude?

 

[SamB]

No but they make it as hard as they can at times to get one honored.

Bu '86 I brought a brand new Plymouth Sundance with 12,000 bumper to bumper (I got it in writing, luckily; not just their little hand out). With 800 miles on the car it broke down. The dealer service center was telling me it wasn't cover by the warranty. I nearly ended up suing them and Plymouth over it just to get it repaired.

My mother-in-law has a n almost new Dodge Durango. Last snow,the 4wd wouldn't engage. Under warranty? Nope. The dealer said the shift motor was stuck because it was not engaged often enough.

 

[bertsmobile1]

Wait, what?

Most warranties don't expire in the US when you walk out the door, but the great thing is is that you have a choice. Spend less and take your chances or spend more and get a decent warranty. It's up to you! It's called freedom of choice. It's a wonderful thing.

Do you really feel the need for the government to protect you from retail decisions like this? How can you possibly feel better by letting the government take that choice away unless you feel that people are too stupid and need to be protected by the government? That's crazy talk.

Choice is fine provided that the purchaser has enough information to make an informed decision presented in a form that they can understand .
So if an item is very low quality and can not be repaired then it must be LABLED as low quality item not able to be repaired.
So the purchases knows they are buying throw away junk .
Much of the EU now had a mandated durability index so if I buy a line trimmer there both the trimmer & power head have an indication of their expected service life, either in hours or as a star system like energy rating .
Selling garbage is fine just so long as you are not decieving the purchaser into believing it is a quality product .

Taking a different tack .
Making single use garbage requires almost the same resources & energy plus creates almost as much pollution as making a quality product that will last for many years.
The logistical pollution ( transport , storeage & distribution ) is exactly the same except you do it many more times with throw away items .
The reason why the planet is in the state it is now is because we are consuming resources and generating pollution at an unsustainable rate .
So if you want to have tornados ripping through New York city and 2' of snow in Death Valley and the Great Lakes to consume 1/3 of the cities & towns that surround them then continue to buy single use garbage because you have the right to decide what you buy . After all when ( not if ) we pollute the planet to a state it will no longer support human life then it will have a chance to recover without the most useless destructive species ever to have existed , humans .
We know what happens when we consume at an unsustainable in the "knowledge" that what ever diety we chose to believe in will provide for us.
It is called Easter Island , and they all died no matter how many statues & offerings they made .
There is no planet B .
The only reason that the USA & Europe has not starved over the past 5 years is that Australia & NZ has exported over 100,000,000 queen bees to replace those in Europe & the USA that were infected by the Veroa mite.
Without these bees the worlds cereal crops would have been reduced by 65% because there were not enough bees to pollenate the crops so the only grain crop the US would have had was corn because corn is wind pollinated , soy is also wind pollenated, but canola requires bees , google to see just how much canola the US & Canada grew in the past 5 years & imagine what you would have done without it, no sunflower oil either .
And now Veroa is in NZ so it won't be long before it is in OZ as well , but of course the person who exported the plants that harboured the Veroa had the RIGHT to export it because the purchaser had the RIGHT to have it and did not want to pay the extra for certified pest & disease free plants which would have cost more .