This project is dead!!
The plastics place just wasn't cutting it as far as quality vs. price. I wasn't going to compromise on having something made that didn't look OE, nor was I going to put out a piece that was >100 clams. Small runs of production equals big prices, btw. I refuse to be asscoiated with putting out crap.
For those of you that criticize how long it takes to do something like this, well try it for yourself or STFU!
I was home five (yeah, 5!) days in October and not much more in September...spare time is a rarer and rarer commodity for me. I really don't have time to hunt around for another plastics place and start from scratch, let alone throw more of my hard earned cash at it.
I tried to help, it didn't work out. Sorry. Piss and moan as you see fit...or better yet, get off your arses and try to do something in this vain yourself. There's a novel idea.