I'm looking for some front wheels for my 201 to buy from the UK quickly so I thought (for a laugh) i'd call the UK distributor, The Hobby Company in Milton Keynes, which is about 11 miles from where I live. I pretty much knew what the answer would be before phoning but I had a spare 5 minutes so I thought i'd try.
After quoting the part number the girl on the other end paused and said, "i'll have a look on the stock and if it's a part that we haven't got then we can get it from Japan in 6 - 8 weeks". To my amazement the answer I got after she checked the stock was, "i'm sorry that part is no longer being made, it's been discontinued"
I laughed and told her that i'm amazed as the car has only been out a few months but she was adamant and said that their information was not normally wrong and that the wheels were definitely no longer being made.
I'll just have to put the other axles on to accept B4 wheels then LOL
Now there's a pretty good reason why a lot of people shop onliine to our foreign friends
