Just watching the time pass as Vans tries to sort out their mess and turn things around. I finally received the email from Vans asking me to confirm which parts I wanted to replace. As planned, I selected all laser cut parts for replacement. Easy decision since none are installed just yet. This will cost me an additional $1637 on top of already paying for the wing kit. It's awesome to have to pay for the same parts twice. 90 new parts in total, Vans is covering the 8 parts they deem worthy of replacement in the wing kit. I am on the hook for the rest. But in their generosity, they gave myself and everyone else in this mess, a 25% discount off the price of the parts. Fair enough except when you realize this is 25% off of the newly increased prices for these same parts. Since prices have gone up on average about 30% on parts, I'm actually not getting any discount at all on these parts, in fact it is costing me more than if I had just ordered the same parts new back in the fall of 2023. Very frustrating but they claim without the price increases, they will be sunk. What's a man to do???
Also they have a policy now of not allowing any deletions of parts from a kit. So thins like a cowling, gear legs, brakes, all those will now be shoved down your throat whether you want to use them or not. Not sure how a company like Show Planes will deal with this as that's their entire business model. Hopefully someone in Aurora will come to their senses about this well before I need to order any of those pieces.
What a cluster....