Buyer Beware: KTJO 4X4 Driver's Side Grab Handles w/ A Pillars, HUD, and Bowl Lights

She just uses the buyers money to fund her business since she can't put up the capital. Or, doesn't want to get stuck with 500 chinese made products that are slight defects. Whichever the case, I'd never wait two years after buying a product, not in this environment. Actually, I go out of my way to make sure the product is in stock and in the US.

 

If I had known the wait time was going to be 2+ years I would not have pre purchased. My specific problem is in the time since I pre purchased I moved. If she did actually ship, which I doubt, she shipped to my old address. But seeing as how she doesn't respond tells me she did not ship. I doubt she even has these things.

Going back to that time KTJO was a member here and seemed like a legit small business. TW did the right thing giving here the ban. I'm going to spread the word across other places this scam business tries to market on. We should all get on her instagram and FB and flag her posts as spam.

 

I'm one of those rare people who received products without flaws or significant delays, but their flat-out refusal to communicate is inexcusable.

 

We attempted to do that here on TW, and yet folks still buy the stuff and post in this thread that they saw the warnings before doing it. The FB comments are filled with similar stuff. Yet people still buy.


About all that I can say is that we have some folks on TW picking up the slack. I recently bought one of @kmorgan3 's 400w Anytime harnesses. Great quality and worked like a champ:

And, @Puppypunter and @daveeasa have been knocking out Delete In Reverse harnesses along with other custom wiring.

No forgetting the ideas that @BigWhiteTRD and @lapoltba have done and are working on, esp the 2Lo Mod.


I guess in my mind, I'll just support the good folks.

 

I have some fear of getting swamped and becoming a similar mess. I'm currently about 60 DIR behind due to a recent video posted 3 days ago. Purchases are tapering (which is nice) but I can only build so fast and yesterday's efforts didn't even cover yesterdays purchases. So it can feel quite daunting trying to juggle things and not make a mess for customers.

 

I haven't even updated my pics since upgrading to a close to TotalTail Stage 2 with the help of @NoOne . Even more clear than with the Rigid flush mount as the reverse light.

Very much appreciated in the dark days here.

 

Oh, and another thing worth mentioning, my 2002 Tundra has handles on both sides and one at the top of the door on the passenger side. WTF right? I kind of love that truck. Working on the power tailgate lock (just to add to the ktjo tie ins) and almost have it working, only it locks on both lock and unlock pulses so I probably have one wire wrong.

 

So, do the 4Runners. Just a different pillar / occupant layout. I believe the handle didn't work with the small overlap test and at the time, MFGs were not testing the right side also. The fact that the handle is there in some crash test videos seems to jive with that? In the small overlap, the ATD contacts the airbag off center, more toward the pillar.

Regardless, I like the cozy cab of the Taco and find it interesting how different even the 4Runners are.

 

Some folks on Instagram are reporting that they’v received their huds and they do not work! And of course no response from ktjo 4x4
This company is a disaster.

 

None of the units work? Might be the chinesium they use in the circuit board.

 

Not if its all. Just some people complaining so social media.

I've reached out to the Oregon Dept of Justice consumer protection. You can file a complaint online at their site. I suggest others that have been burned by this company do the same.

 

Are you waiting on a shipment or did you go the refund route?

 

She has horrible communication but decent products in my dealings with her. I'll never buy another thing from her because my trucks about done but I haven't had any issues with anything. I don't expect it will ever get better.

 

Oh gawd.

It sucks to say that 50% of the handles working is some kind of high mark.

 

I suppose you could say that, in my case, 100% of the handles (2) that were mailed to me ended up installed and as far as I know haven’t stopped working yet.

 

That is not the metric that I'm thinking about. It seems that half of us needed to bend the clips for a proper installation. In my mind, that is a major fail.

But, nothing wrong with BOGO.

 

Maybe the HUD fiasco is next? I've one incoming on Tuesday... Stay tuned.

 

Good luck!

 

I second that. Good Luck.