i guess the trick here is to stick with what ya know. If a vendor sells a good product, a battle proven product, then i would say its a good product. Stick with a vendor that you and others have had good experiences with, you cant go wrong. If a vendor has been around for a while, maintains a good reputation with service and product - takes the time to r&d products for a car that is hard to get parts for....then that is a good vendor in my book.
I will stick with the vendors, and behind them, which I have done business with for the past few years. I stick with the ones that stick by me.
ABSOLUTELY!!!
I'll never for the life of me figure out the rush to buy all this chinese crap in the first place just to save a bunch of coin. If it's just because of a budget thing, or you can't afford good quality stuff, then take a lesson from me. (If I can't afford name brand and high quality, I just do without until I get the coin together, it's that simple. Come on folks, get a life, don't flush our economy down the crapper for your own selfish reasoning). Especially in light of the fact they've declared open warfare on our economy!
The reason I'll never knowingly buy or support any product that comes out of china.
I could go no forever on this but won't belabor the point. You people that enjoy supporting that crap, good for you. I sincerely hope you get what's coming down the line.
God forbid your favorite dog or cat dies because of the poisons placed in their food.
God forbid you, your spouse or child gets sick or dies from the poisons that they've been placing in the beef they've sent us.
Or the lead in the toys.
Hopefully the substandard crap that everybody feels the need to buy wont come back to haunt them in some way, later down the road.
I'll also support the known great vendors that continue to "invent" to keep our beloved vehicles going. Even though some of them are selling some chinese stuff, I'll support their inovative new products that they choose to have designed, proven (you wont get this with chinese junk), built here.
What I wont support are those that are choosing to support china by buying/selling strictly those products. We all know who those are.
Last point, I hear it in this thread and many others. "Well I've seen product xxxx and it looks like good high quality craftsmanship". You're laying eyeballs on something proves NOTHING! You can't see the quality of materials, hidden workmanship, etc. Your eyeballs tell you nothing of the nature of materials used.
That's why I pressed so hard for someone to post pictures looking up inside the chinese made passenger side headers. The incredibly crude holes made for the #5 cylinder to dump into the main log should speak volumes!! Even after they were "suposidly" fixed, it still looked like crap, and much smaller than the tube welded around it. Unbelievable.
Sorry, down off my soapbox now.
