2024-08-08 New Driveshaft & Evri Scam
When I returned from Santapod and wasn't sure I was able to find another 1.3 nearside shaft, I ordered a brand new shaft from EuroCarParts for £104. They offered free delivery and estimated to arrive by Wednesday before a car meet, so that would've save me from driving to Stockton twice.
Unfortunately it didn't arrive on wednesday (I fitted the spare shafts I got from Jack instead to make the car meet), Evri only just received my order from ECP on Wed so I was expecting it on Thurs.
Thursday morning 10:30 I was waking up & saw this SMS assuming it's from Evri & was concerned of the message bout my parcel being delayed further
So before my common sense woke up, I clicked the link, it took me to this Evri website where I entered name, addr, mobile number
But it asked for £0.71 process fee to update these delivery details?
![Face with raised eyebrow :face_with_raised_eyebrow: 🤨](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f928.png)
I should've heard the alarm bells but my silly ignorance said meh tiny fee, entered my CC number
Then it had a 60s timer where I'd be sent a verification code by SMS or email but very little time to wait & copy/paste. did it just in time.
then took me to Evri home page.
Only few mins later did I realise I've been fckin scammed looking at the unofficial mobile number and fake foreign link
![Face screaming in fear :scream: 😱](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png)
Dafuq did I do!!?
I'm soo worried with anxiety.
Nothing has been taken out of my CC yet but I froze my CC, reported it as lost to get a new card # (hopefully making the old details I gave scammers void), changed my passwords.
Dunno what will happen but I lost mood to do anything tday
Checking the official Evri tracking # at 11am said parcel was bigger than expected so they had to send via specialist.
At 3pm it eventually arrived.
So in conclusion, that was either a genuine Evri SMS sent via delivery guy?
Or someone spotted my online purchase & sent me a fake phishing scam while my order turned up anyway?
I feel sick & wanted to immediately return this unopened box to eurocarparts to refund £104 cos don't really need it anymore
I was convinced to keep it & suck up the £104 price cos tbh this new shaft would last lot longer than the 2nd-hand shaft I just fitted
![Thinking face :thinking: 🤔](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f914.png)
So I opened it up (eurocarparts was gonna open it to inspect anyway when returning stuff)
Glad I checked cos apart from being clean, it doesn't come with dynamic dampers I also see the shaft is alot thicker
Starline part # 8414610 1462 J0327
The spec of the diff & hub ends match up
The old Nissan shafts were 23mm thick
Whereas these new Starline shafts listed on eurocarparts for the cg10, cg13 & cga3 are a thick 25mm, great for strength
Jack suggested checking the grease cos most of them dont come with enough grease & fail prematurely.
Glad I opened it up & ignore the warranty cos the outer CV had the bare minimum of lube, it'd probably last few weeks before wearing out fast
The inner CV wasn't too bad
Uses the same ball-cage layout but while the old OEM joints have a crimped 'lip' to stop the joint popping apart, the Starline uses a big inner c-clip, great for servicing
Was trying to remove this part with a hammer/punch and also a gear puller but it simply won't budge. It can nudge 0.2mm along the spline but something inside (c-clip?) was really locking it into place and I dont wanna force damage this new shaft
Repacked it with extra grease
Reassembled to install tomorrow