JabbaHursty wrote:
>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?
Hey, thanks for the reply
I'm just looking for parts that work correctly, I don't really care about
where they are made, just that they work.
I've heard there are Quality issues with the new Bosch nozzles and
Injector rebuilds. Where they are made is irrelevant to me. The only reason I
specified German is that's when they supposedly still worked correctly. Like I
said before this might be a load of BS, I don't know, but would like to find
out.
I AM IN NO WAY TRYING TO IMPUGN THE REPUTATION OF RUSTY OR YOU OR ANY OTHER
PARTS RETAILER!
My biggest fear is if Bosch is having Quality problems with the parts for
my old car, they will just stop making the part instead of fixing the problem!
If someone has any NOS Bosch or MB nozzles that were made in Germany, for a
617 turbo, and want to sell, I'll pay $35 each until I get a set of 5. Russ
H
