Höfner HCT-500/2-SB Club-Bass

i bought this bass after i have use Icon(Ignition series) Hofner Club bass. Now I think that it was not a step up. Bass came fully unsetaped(but setup card was with marks), a "bow" neck, pickups very high( strings lays on it. I spent my evening hour to make bass playable) what I have done
1. Change terrible thin stock strings to La Bella Black Nylon ( for my taste)
2 setup truss rod("bullet" was fully unscrewed)
3. Take file and make zero fret not so hi( before it between bottom of srings and 1-st fret was about 3 mm!!)
4 Pickups were screwed crookedly.I put a wooden toothpick with superglue to holes and rescrewed frames correctly
Now it sounds normally similar like solid body bass with little semiacoustic obertones ( remember about sustain block in contemporary series basses!)
Overall it looks better than sounds. I also have Icon (Ignition) series Beatle Bass (bought also on Thomann) Comparing pickups (German made?? on HTC and noname on Icon (Ignition) a have not seen any diffirence
Buy or Not to Buy?
If you need image bass, 60's vibes sparkling on stage or you want a bass to put on wall of your room and you have free five hundred euro-its really OK(don't forget to change pot's knobs to Hofner Cup Style and paint switches to creme white))))
If you want sound closer to original German made Hofners and you don't hesistate of pickups look and "no white binding" heck , buy Icon Club Bass ang enjoy this. IMHO you dont loose any quality