david, i have a few things to say:
1) i'm 100% sure it is a manufacturing problem and poor quality control
2) even so, i'm ready to be subjected to whatever test xmiplay wants me to do
3) i went to 4 forums on the internet to discuss this looking for solutions to solve it, i did not wanted to sent or receive no frame.
4) i went to 2 different LBS
5) specifically to the problem. The mount is not leved, when the bottom face of the caliper encounters the mount the calipers starts to tilt to the inside of the bike. This is clear at the naked eye. The place where the screw enters inside the mount is tilted bad. I already put a photo. When you mount the caliper the unleveled mount twists the caliper. But even if i sand the caliper the crooked screw pushes the caliper inside. Physics. Any solution with washers or adapters raises the caliper and increases the problem as the higher the caliper the closer the angle between screw and rotor and the worse the problem gets.
6) Of course this not something that does not have a solution. I could fill the hole with qbold, epoxi, liquid aluminnium, and make a new one. But this requires money, precision (make a new hole that's parallel it's difficult, so difficult xmiplay that does it every day screw it up). a good mechanic. Tools. I have none of this. NONE.
7) I had no idea what i was talking on 6) a week ago, i inquired, i asked, i lost hours on end to figure this out
8 ) If China have crazy customs mine are not any good. Last time i made five 70kms trips do customs to get the frame. China is a poor country, so is mine. For me what i payed is a lot, don't judge me for or standards. My country's wages are nothing like yours.
9) If i do not send the frame for China. When i receive the new frame i must pay taxes, customs, and wait more than a month, because it's a new import for them.
I DO NOT WANT THIS.10) i want to sent the frame to China. i repeat:
i want to sent the frame to China.
I do not want 2 frames.11) now we can see who is in good faith here and who's not.
12)
This is XMIPLAY's 2ND MISTAKE13) I specifically asked for a 142 frame. He sent 135 dropouts. But did he sent the dropout to me that i had already paid. Read about it again (i have emails that prove all this):
I am the most reasonable customer Peter will find and he should very well know that. How many here would get the wrong dropout. Talked to them. Got a reply that i had to pay freight cost for the dropout unless i ordered something else, i ordered a lot more stuff, and in the end they made me pay for the dropout, for the freight cost, for everything with a 3USD discount.THIS COSTED ME MORE THEN THE 82.25 EUROS THAT IT COSTS ME TO SENT THE FRAME TO CHINA, ALL BECAUSE XMIPLAY DID CRAP.14) the bike is mounted, i have to loose the hidraulic brake (20 euros), the helicopter tape (10 euros), the assembly i payed at a shop, i do not have some tools (35 euros). I have to go to customs again (toll and diesel , i don't know but something like 50 Euros
do the math...
i both a frame, have no frame.
xmiplay made 2 mistakes, so far payed for none, i payed for one already (about 80 euros), xmiplay payed ZERO EUROS
xmiplay wants me to pay more 82.25 euros for the 2nd mistakei don't know if this is a problem with my english or a nationality clash, but this is unfair, unreasonable, stupid, i should already have this settled. i have no problem with mistakes, i have with people who do not face them. I get even more upset when i read that to others when theres mistakes xmiplay gets them discounts and to me i get the middle finger.
You guys wanna help write to xmiplay at peter@xmiplay.cn and ask i'm to do the right thing, pressure him. This is so insane at the point that xmiplay does not even understand that paypal will get them and probably loose more than to settle with me.
Xmiplay could offer me a amount in cash so i could repair it, xmiplay could the 1st time sent the dropout free of charges and now i would probably face this all thing in a different light
It's hard to get sympathetic to the argument that they have to pay chinese customs and all that crap, when the 1st mistake they had none of that and made me pay for the fricking dropout twice, freight cost i did not had to pay in the 1st place and more customs i did not had to pay in the 1st place... and i even bought more stuff because he asked.... insane
SEE MY POINT.