Ok, I received my replacement Formula seat today (sort of anyway). The seat arrive without the nose piece (I knew this since Dimitrie had explained to me the situation with the nose piece on the whited formula seats) but it also did not come with the front end supports. Not sure if they are shipping with the nose piece, hope they are otherwise that will be just more delay.
Here's a picture of the packaging and how my seat arrived:
Notice how close this section is to the very thin cardboard packaging. This is a very heavy piece and if my nosepiece had been included I'm sure it would have had damaged. This part was jammed up against the box end (I actually moved it back a bit for the photo to slow how little protection there is. It would not surprise me to hear of many receiving their formula seat with nose piece damage if the packaging isn't improved.
There was some damage to my seat support and my seat was scratched. This should not be happening for a product this expensive.
This pic shows the seat support damage, the left side was bent pretty bad, the right side only slightly. This would not have happened if packaged properly.
Left side seat support
Right side seat support - this doesn't look like it's bent much but the way the seat mounts you need to have these tabs perfectly straight. It is in a very hard to get to position and you barely have room to get the bolt into place.
http://www.randgraphics.org/GTPlanet/bent_right_seat_spport.jpg
Scratch on left side of seat - this really sucks
Damage on right side of seat (not as bad as the left side) but does look worst in person.
No nose piece (I knew it would arrive without the nose piece) and no front end supports (not sure if these are shipping with the nose piece, hope so).
Additionally, although there was no damage to my seat cover there were a couple of impressions made in the seat cover on the left and right hand sides at the top (not sure what caused them) that could possibly cause damage.
Right hand side - In this pic you can see a slight mark leading down to the impression, whatever caused this could possible tear the seat.
Left hand side - it looks like a white speck toward the center of the photo but it is actually an impression made by something sticking into the seat.
Well, I just now checked a few other items and found that I'm also missing the bolts for the adjustment of the pedal tray, the four bolts to mount the keyboard/mouse tray to the frame and the four bolts to mount the keyboard/mouse tray to the support arm.
My seat did not come with any instructions, tools or bag of bolts, etc. All the bolts were screwed into the frame, seat, etc. (except for the missing ones).
Anyone else who has receive one of these seats is this the way your's arrived?
'm starting to wonder if maybe I got a display unit since it was mostly put together (not to mention the pedal tray is covered in dust as if it had been sitting out).
This is really unsat for a unit in this price range.
I've sent an email to Dimitrie and hopefully will hear from him tomorrow.
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