saw this on another forum im on. There is a hamb link in the replies which list a few of the hoffman group brands.
http://www.nz-hotrod.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?8914-LVVTA-Aftermarket-Steering-Column-Safety-Alert
hamb link
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=650004
That's some scary stuff. Imagine some poor guy purchasing something like that and putting it into his car thinking that he bought a nice product. Next thing bam!!! He has no steering.
I have used tilt columns in assorted projects over the years, but always stuck with original ones from American cars. For some reason the high tech looking ones just never appealed to me.
That's scary stuff, leave it to the Chinese to infiltrate the after market with their cheap ass no good products
Followed the Hoffman Group thread on the Hamb a while back...apparently a dozen or so companies involved in aftermarket stuff...some targeting the hot rodders...
Seems like, at least according to a number of reports on the Hamb, the Hoffman Group has been buying reputable companies and substituting what was once a good product with Chinese crap, and at the same time all but eliminating their service departments and warrantiy fulfillments. I think only one of their companies was still putting out a good product.