Sawubona, truth-seekers and wallet-watchers. Ralph and Justin here, standing in the middle of the Benoni strip yard with two identical Komatsu PC400-6 final drives on the bench: Left bench: genuine Komatsu OEM final drive, 9 800 hours, pulled from a low-abuse coal loader. Price from Vikfin: R48 000. Right bench: brand-new Chinese aftermarket copy bought by a customer who “saved” R28 000 up-front. Ran 2 410 hours. Now looks like it lost a fight with a blender. We’ve stripped,

Howzit, legends of the dig. Ralph in Benoni and Justin in Cato Ridge here. Between us we’ve personally stripped 47 Komatsu PC400-series (Dash-6 right up to Dash-8M0) and 38 Hitachi ZX450/ZX470/ZX490 machines since 2018. That’s 85 complete 40-tonne carcasses turned into pallets of parts that are earning contractors money from Kathu to Kitwe right now. We’re not brand fan-boys. We sell whatever walks through the gate. But when the numbers are this one-sided, we have to call it.