Well, kinda.

The fact is TEIN already has a great reputation in Thailand through our distributor operating as TEIN Thailand! However, this most recent news really helps put TEIN on the map!!!

It was recently discovered that two men, one Canadian and one Thai, have been working together on smuggling drugs into Australia. “How does this involve TEIN?”, you may ask?

These guys ingeniously used some TEIN coilover kits and opened them up, then stuffed them full of drugs. Total count: over 3,700 grams of heroin, 1 kilogram of marijuana, 1 gram of cocaine, & two ecstasy pills. Quite a haul, considering this all had a reported value of 7.5 million baht (about $240,000 USD).

So the story is that these drug-filled coilovers were sent to an address in Australia, but unfortunately the address was either incorrect or non-existent. So the coilover kits were sent back to Thailand, and upon inspection by customs, it was discovered that they contained the illegal drugs.

Authorities were able to trace the coilover kits back to the original shipper.

Seizure of the property included quite a bit of cash, other illegal drugs, and some expensive luxuries like Rolex watches, a Mercedes E300 (if you know anything about buying/owning a car in Thailand, you’ll know it’s really expensive to do so and have, especially European cars).

I mean, we know our coilover kits are a great value, but we didn’t realize it would be that much! Hahahahaha!

Pictures and information were found in this article by The Nation

One thing’s for sure, these coilovers probably had the worst ride and handling after their “rebuild”.