Quote Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies View Post
How can you tell the difference between Chinese and Indian?

All I know is that the bearings they sell are unbranded to manufacturer and country of manufacture, even though they categorically stated that they would be Japanese when I asked prior to purchase. Every English, USA, German or Japanese bearing I have ever bought from a bearing supplier, has always had some sort of marking indicating make and country.
Diana,

The bearings I got were in a marked box (this was some time ago), tracked the company down to India.
A while ago I purchased unmarked wheel bearings for the S1, just an etched part number on the inner & outer race. No idea where they were made but I would guess India because a lot of their stuff comes from there. So far no issues with them but I left the original SKEFCO bearings in the other Front hub because they were still OK, it will be interesting to see which fail first.

Be careful with judging bearings (or any other product) just by the perceived country of manufacture. Most large bearing manufacturers have production plants in China. For example NSK have 7 manufacturing plants there and SKF have 11 plants.
It depends on the quality of the steel and the manufacturing procedures/tolerances/inspection etc. Yes, China is generally known for low quality components but there is some very good stuff coming from there as well. It wasn't that many years ago we had the same attitude to Taiwanese products.....

VNX205 - RHP was Ransome, Hoffman & Pollard but they were bought out (by NSK I think) a long time ago. I lived near one of the UK sites which was shut down soon after the takeover.


Colin