The replica doesn't fit the same. The lines on the tail lights do NOT line up. You can't argue against that, it's clear as day in the pictures... look at all the pictures posted on the socalevo thread...

Pictures of your mom? You can PM them if necessary...

 

Lol at the pics of mom.

 

i hate knockoffs... slap in the face to people who put the r&d into it... anyways i got my doluck coming in this month from driveline.. DOLUCK FTW!!!

 

anyone know who is selling the replica? lol

 

Trademarks & Copyrights. This is why we have them... in the only country in the world where you the inventor can file a design for trademark protection and not have to pay an attoney.

UNLESS you seek protection under the LAW your sol.

R&D into a trunk design.... hahahaha.

The issue fee for a design patent for a small entity is $400 bucks application fee is probably no more than $500. So for Less than $2k they could have protected thier trunk design.

 

design patents do not need specific dimensions you can get away with an overall shape.

 

I think the DoLuck trunk looks great and would love to have one, but they are to rich for my blood. If the knock-offs fit as good i would buy one but from the few pics i have seen they don't. And i would not put a trunk on my car that fits like s**t.

I shop at Wallmart so looks like my soul has already been sold to the Devil.

 

It's not even a replica, its fugly 2x2 weave. My orig Do-Luck is 1x1 and fitment is excellent.

 

I'd paint to match. So weave wouldn't matter to me.

 

If ur going to paint it dont they make an FRP version?

 

Yes they do.

 

people who buy replicas are trying to make their car look more expensive then it is, or nicer looking then it really is. craftsmanship shows in the end. people who are willing to sacrifice their pride and joy for $500 or what ever the price difference is will buy it. to me my car means to much to me to cheap out on a rip off.some peoples cars just dont mean the same to them.

for the record i own a real do luck trunk.

 

i agree

 

Until someone makes a good enough replica. Then your points are invalid

 

like someone said before, R&D on a trunk design that has ZERO performance benefit? hahahahahaha okay. it's a trunk. it's not a suspension piece, motor part, or even a functional aero panel. i personally wouldn't buy a knockoff of a functional part where performance is the goal of adding the part. that would defeat the whole purpose of buying it.

that said, this isn't a performance part. it's a decorative trunk lid. it wasn't wind tunnel tested and proven to do anything to help the car's performance or anything. it's good that somebody made a replica because the real thing is overpriced anyway, just like most "mad JDM tyte yo" parts. also as someone stated, knockoffs aren't stealing much if any business from Do-Luck because the people who buy the knockoff never would have bought the real thing anyway. if the replica didn't exist, they'd still be rocking stock trunks, or something other than the DO-Luck piece.

what robs sales from companies are the ridiculous prices they charge just for the name they stamp on them. i understand there are fitment issues, but if a replica part is produced that can get within 90-95% of the quality of the original for half the price, i'm all for it. instead of *****ing and complaining, the big companies should cut into their own profits and drop the damn prices.

what's sad are all the idiots who these big companies have brainwashed into thinking that overpaying for overpriced parts is something to be proud of. it's that same mentality that allows dealerships to mark up EVO's (and other performance cars) over sticker because they know some moron out there will pay it because they "respect quality, and are happy to pay whatever price to enjoy this car/part/whatever." that's a load of crap. you don't have to pay out the *** for a good part.