Unfortunately, all of you waiting for the pads I must ask you to have patience for a little longer.
Upon the advice of the die cutter and to save on costs we decided to make a large die for the pad in automatic cars and then use a much smaller die to cut an additional opening in the already cut automatic pads for the pad in manual cars. That meant that I had to decide how many automatic pads to convert into manual pads. Well I did not hit the mark.
I read somewhere that in the USA the ratio of automatic/manual cars sold was about 3/1. I knew from the preliminary inquiries that there were more manual car owners wanting them than the ratio suggested and I picked a 1-to-1 ratio. Turns out the actual orders run almost 2 manual-to-1 automatic!
That by itself is an interesting situation - and I wonder why? Anybody have a suggestion or explanation?
Anyway, now we have to cut more manual pads and since this is only a very small order for the shop we need to wait a little longer in the queue.
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Upper left corner pad.Tom,
I was able to find enough material (that we wanted to use to cut out the rectangles to hold down the cable in the trunk) to provide about 7 strips for those who want to purchase additional material for that purpose.
