Thread: Why u dont buy Chinese car parts!

Who was flinging poo at my beloved Fairlane, that was u young Disco Steve, are u insinuating that Fairlanes are unloveable? or even unreliable perhaps? go and wash your mouth out with soap, my old 78 Fairlane is bueatifully preserved and in fine condition it will be around 50 years after my AU has dropped into the ground.

Nah its got fuel, its got a new plug, the damn thing just wont fire, i threw the thing up the putty and then plonked it in the shed, what I usually do, I have an expensive temper

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Originally Posted by landyfromanuthaland

beloved Fairlane

Now theres two words you dont see together often

"Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today in memory of ........." (you know the rest ).

Originally Posted by Quiggers

That $100 compressor I bought from superjoint 3 years back still goes, but all the fittings gave up in the first year and had to be replaced.

2 boxes of aldi brekky cereal had more weevils than tucker...

the samsung washing machine is rusting after 5 years...

...every computer monitor (all Asian, but with apple stickers) I've acquired new has given up within a year...

the jug in the kitchen (chinese) gets replaced every six months or so under warranty - up to the fourth one - which has the same prob as the previous three...

now see my rant about an ethernet switcher

GQ

At lease we'll be OK when the sea levels rise due to global warming. Just keep piling up the landfill sites higher and higher .

Originally Posted by rovercare

Mahindra are the largest tracotr manufacturers worldwide

Kyoto recon they are, Deadong, Branson and Kyoto as well as parts and engines for Kubota and Komatsu (small earth moving stuff).

But I havnt seen any numbers to proove it, just a pamphlet that came with a quote for a tractor recently so I dont know how much truthe there is in that.

Mahindra are building Yanmar stuff these days as well arnt they?

Originally Posted by landyfromanuthaland

Who was flinging poo at my beloved Fairlane, that was u young Disco Steve, are u insinuating that Fairlanes are unloveable? or even unreliable perhaps? go and wash your mouth out with soap, my old 78 Fairlane is bueatifully preserved and in fine condition it will be around 50 years after my AU has dropped into the ground.

It's not hard to "out last" an AU though


Note to self...DUCK

Originally Posted by Quiggers

That $100 compressor I bought from superjoint 3 years back still goes, but all the fittings gave up in the first year and had to be replaced.

2 boxes of aldi brekky cereal had more weevils than tucker...

the samsung washing machine is rusting after 5 years...

...every computer monitor (all Asian, but with apple stickers) I've acquired new has given up within a year...

the jug in the kitchen (chinese) gets replaced every six months or so under warranty - up to the fourth one - which has the same prob as the previous three...

now see my rant about an ethernet switcher

GQ

Hey GQ, have you been hanging out with Ron

Originally Posted by JohnE

Gee there is a lot of dissention regarding, chinese made products from aussie companies, it is a fact of life these days.
Whilst I may be wrong with what I have been told, the quality from factories over there is as good as anything western made that we know.
We are so absorbed with consumerism, that unless a brand name we have grown up with is on something we buy, we immediately have our suspicions on the product.
A case in point is aldi products, they are rebadged products we already know, but I have heard so many times , ' oh its no good doesn;t taste like X brand.where it probably is X brand.'

While I am not beating the drum for chinese products, the peasant over there buys the same sort of machinery that they sell here, they don't have the yuen /dollars that we have so things have to last. So shoddy is not in their best interests. The same for what rovercare said about mahindra tractors.


john

You are right to a point John, the only thing that is stopping the good Chinese stuff from getting known is that not many Aussie manufacturers will buy it in when it is only 1/2 the price of the item they are buying now and down the road from the 1/2 price factory there is a 1/4 price factory which pumps out a product that looks nearly the same.

I use 3 bearing suppliers, 1 which wont supply chinese stuff at all as they tried and got lobbed with law suits and warrenty returns from customers that were less than happy, 1 that will supply some chinese stuff but is stricked on their quality control off shore in china and another that I only use for wheel barrow and trolly bearings as they sell cheap cheap stuff which is the chinese crap.

I have had similar stories as other people with chinese made bearings and other parts but I have to say that in general, I have a lot of chinese built stuff in the house and I have had very little trouble with any of it.

It will end up the same as Japan, as their economy gets larger and more money starts flowing through the place, all the safety and work practices will come into play as will the quality control and then China will have to move over for another elcheapo country for the Supercheap auto products as there will allways be 1.