the german companies are getting away from manufacturing stuff in
germany in a big way. There is a behr fan clutch on our website that
sells for less than one of our suppliers sells it for wholesale. at
times such as these, i like to go and make fun of someone at the
wholesaler in question. in this case, the company is small enough
that i could IM the CEO asking him if he'd like to get some from me.
This puzzled and upset the CEO as it pretty bad for him when his
competitors can sell stuff to me cheaper than he can buy it for, so
he dropped everything and went to visit the purchasing
department. Turns out the one he was selling was german and the one
sold on the buyMBparts website was identical but chinese. The
chinese part sells for 2/3 the price of the german one and is reputed
to be every bit as good.
when the chinese can make it better for 1/3 the price, why would
anyone still make anything in western europe?
At 10:38 PM 8/20/2005, you wrote:
Marshall wrote:
>The nozzles (NOT the injectors) cost almost $30 EACH now
I'm not asking for Giveaways, I'll pay $35 EACH for NOS Bosch or MB
German nozzles.
Marshall wrote:
>Not clear that you can get ANYTHING that is made in Germany >any more.
>Bosch has a part number and all you can do is order the part with >THAT
>part number. There is NO reason why the part can't be
made >anywhere in the world to the same standards.
Apparently Bosch moved all or most of their production to India,
and they either rushed production or never could finish the needle
and seat faces properly. Have even heard the tiny holes are not
dilled all the way or not even there. Needless to say poor or
nonexistent spray patterns from new Bosch Nozzles or Rebuilds!
Maybe all this is a load of BS, who knows? But I don't want to
find out the hard way!
If you know a Injector professional would you ask what he knows
about the Quality of the new nozzles? It might clear things up.
There I went and did it and won't get a single nozzle! Russ H
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