No ram offroad park

 

It's a bird, It's a plane nope it's a truggy!!!

 

Ouch! I cringed a little.

 

Why?!

 

That was AWESOME question is did you break anything if not then how many jumps til you did

 

Dented the oil pan. I jumped a few times prior to that.

 

LOL!

 

I have been waiting on some parts to finish some bumpers from ballistic fabrication for a couple weeks and found this yesterday......

January 24, 2012
Re-organization of Ballistic Fabrication
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For Immediate Release:
Ballistic Fabrication is best known for its outstanding off-road product line and high quality in-house manufacturing capabilities. Ballistic has faced many adversities over the past few years related to inventory, product delivery and customer service. It is well known in the industry that while Ballistic Fabrication continues to supply large amounts of high quality parts worldwide, the aforementioned deficiencies have created longer than usual lead times in shipping and product delivery. These problems have been attributed in part to extremely rapid company growth which in turn led to inventory control issues.
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*********** Ballistic Fabrication has partnered with an investor to bring additional financial stability to the company. In an effort to better serve its customers, Ballistic has invested in a state-of-the-art inventory / shop management system. Ballistic will now be able to effectively manage production and inventory of every specific part in their catalog of thousands of part numbers. This information in turn will be reported live to Ballistics customers via the website. Ballistic hopes that this new system alleviates future confusion and issues related to potential backorders. In addition to these improvements, Ballistic now stocks a complete inventory of raw materials on hand. Ballistic hopes that this will alleviate backorders due to raw material supply shortages. Ballistic Fabrication has also found it necessary to restructure specific key personnel in the management and accounting team.
*********** ** In addition to these changes, Ballistic has filed for Ch11 reorganization in order to restructure its financial obligations. Ballistic Fabrications lawyer stated the following -
“The past few years presented significant economic challenges to Ballistic Fabrication, LLC. *Material costs, shipping costs, and the overall economic downturn are only a few factors that played a role in Ballistics decision to file a petition for bankruptcy relief. *Contrary to any rumors circulating, Ballistic will not be shutting its doors. *Ballistic will be continuing operations while reorganizing*its debts and obligations. This process will not affect Ballistics’ ability to produce quality products and to service its customers. *Ballistic and all of its dedicated employees are confident that they will emerge a stronger company.”
Ballistic Fabrication would like to thank its many loyal customers for years of support and looks forward to the opportunity to regain its customers trust and becoming the standard of excellence in the off-road industry.
-Ballistic Fabrication Management
PDF Version :
assets/images/PDF/Ballistic Press Release MRK 1.pdf
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I was wondering what was taking sooooo long again. Hope it goes well so I dont have to change any of my business.

 

I love their parts, but will not use them, due to the lead time issue, and the fact that Dave was all but blind to it. He made some remarks about it in a PM chain I had with him, that I didn't appreciate either. He is no longer a vendor here, and there is a reason! Best of luck to them, but my money will go elsewhere...

I find it strange that business grew so much they couldn't keep up with orders....and yet they file chapter 11...it should be the opposite, IMHO.

 

They seemed like they were doing a lot better. Hope this said new investor does a better job at keeping up with demand. Im about a week behind my schedule because of this.

 

Have no fear Hooligan Off Road Engineering is here! CNC plasma/router/plotter coming real soon. Get your parts cut locally! Hey Dustin are we still gonna swap dies for the pro tools bender? Gotta cage a FJ40 next week with 1 3/4 DOM .120 wall.

 

I have a jd2 bender.....im not certain they will work on eachother. I forgot you had a protools bender when we discussed it.

And i will be using Hooligan cnc parts when you get it rolling. We should setup a meeting and discuss some biz Josh!

 

I will be using some parts too for
My cage and one Ton build

 

Who would like to be a test subject for some Hudfab tube doors? You would just have to pay for materials and let me have your jeep for a weekend. I need 96- and 97+ models.

First person to PM me gets free labor!

 

sounds very tempting actually. plus my doors are roll up, so the only wire i have is for the speakers

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