It is with much sadness that we advise all our valued customers that we have closed our store.
Sunday 30th June was the last day our store has taken any orders.
Please note that all current orders in our system will be honoured or refunded. We will work through and complete all of these over the next three months.
Please also note that we are hoping to re-commence selling through our online store once again in about 36 months.
This has not been an easy decision; for the last 14 years we have made and sold a range of parts for old Toyota models and its been more than just a magnificent journey. We have delighted so many people by helping them complete their Toyota projects with parts that were no longer available from TMC and from any other vendor. And we have truly loved having made and sold these parts.
The reason why we are closing is because; Family must come first and we also will need to rebuild the supply side of our business.
Over the last few years we have had to divert our attention to some significant family matters. These matters have made it extremely difficult to devote the time needed to manage and run our business. We still have some of these significant family matters to deal with and for that reason we know its unfair to our customers to keep bumping along like we have been for the last two to three years.
The Covid19 period was followed by some major floods that we had in our home town, and while we sort of recovered from these impacts to our business and got back on top of delays in deliveries, the family matters arrived shortly afterwards.
On the supply side of things; some of our customers know we make some items in-house and some are made under contract with long term partners. A number of our long term partners have stopped manufacturing and we have to find suitable partners to go forward with - which is an incredibly time intensive process.
No doubt some of you have had delays for your parts way beyond any acceptable length of time. Some folks have been really understanding and others understandably have been very pissed off at us. For these delays we sincerely apologise.
We've struggled to maintain communications with our customers too. Just too many channels nowadays and it needs somebody managing them full time.
We now have to reel back in the current situation with orders and devote all our time and effort to our family and rebuilding the supply side of the business.
We were so reluctant to make the decison to close the store that we looked for a suitable party to either manage and operator or buy our business, so that we could focus on family and the supply side of our business. But we could not find a suitable party for either. We are still open to discusisons if anybody would like to contact us for this purpose.
There will be no 'closing down sale' - the stock we have on hand will be maintained for a later time.
Again we must say our deepest thanks to all our customers who have helped make this business and provided us with much joy over the last 14years.
We look forward to getting back to business in the future and talking to all our valued customers once again.
Sincerely, the team at Koromo Heritage