ZookBOB - An Introduction

With kind permission from Martin...

If you haven't spotted me by now... I am "ZookBOB" on eBay -



eBay LINK

ZookBOB - "Bits On a Budget", a nod to Bits4Vits and also my full name is Robert David Jones, so the BOB is also a shortening of my first name too.

As Bits4Vits, I've always been a merchant that "buys-to-sell" whereas a lot of my current competition "make-to-sell", so I've struggled to compete on prices as margins are obviously a lot lower when you are reselling other company's products. I also found it difficult to compete with the budget eBay sellers out there

So, over Christmas, I was mulling the whole thing over and decided that I too would begin to "make-to-sell"... In Bits4Vits heyday years I'd invested in tools to offset some of the profits I made back then, so I've got a decent MIG welder, a chop saw, pillar drill, pipe bender, sheet bender, angle grinders, etc... And as my Dad was a steel fabricator all his life, and I've been spannering with Suzuki 4x4 Vehicles for the past 27 years, making stuff has always been "in my blood"...

So, I spent my days off, Wednesdays and Sundays, in January and early February making Bits in my garage...

And now have the start of a range of parts that I make and sell myself...

eBay LINK

So far there's -

Front and Rear Shock Spacers / Repositioners
Rear Shock Spacers / Repositioners with a bush at the bottom on the axle mounting
Bump Stop Spacers
Simple and cheap front shock spacers made from box section
A Steering Damper kit for road-going Jimnys
And a HD one for offroad Jimnys
Steering Spacers for after a bodylift is fitted
Brake Brackets for suspension and bodylifts
Transfer Box Mounting Brackets to replace those flimsy cast ones
Transfer Box Bush'n'Bolt stack mounts
Seat Spacers for us tall people with long legs
and budget spacer based Suspension Lift Kits

In the pipeline, I also have -

Castor Correction Bushes

and other Bits as things start to sell, and my skills develop

This is a completely separate business to Bits4Vits for a couple of reasons... Bits4Vits has always been branded as "inexpensive quality products", so I didn't want to introduce a budget range onto the store, and Bits4Vits continues to sell a large proportion of products overseas where the competition sell higher priced products... in the UK there are more [strike]cut-throat[/strike], sorry, cut-price :lol: retailers, so "ZookBOB" is just on the UK eBay site..

So, with thanks to Martin for allowing me to post this (a donation to the forum fund will of course be made too), I just wanted to introduce my new budget range of parts to the Jimny-massive that congregate on this great forum...

eBay LINK

Dave

Quick montage -

Hi Dave, looks very neatly made, well done and good luck with new range!

Phil (I bought wheels and tyres from you)

Gazguzzler wrote: Hi Dave, looks very neatly made, well done and good luck with new range!

Phil (I bought wheels and tyres from you)

Thanks Phil

Sounds like a good plan Dave good luck

Daniel30 wrote: Sounds like a good plan Dave good luck

Thanks Dan