rev up your engines, blues driver 62, what do you think Scotty
made in China parts versus made in mexico parts, I have to say made in China
parts if you get good ones, because I have seen over the past 10 years the
parts that were made in Mexico they broke down much more frequently than the
parts that were made in China if you buy good parts, I buy from quality
manufacturers and yes it's true sometimes my only choice is remanufactured
in China or remanufactured in Mexico, and if I have a choice today I would take
remanufactured in China, because I've seen the quality of the Mexican stuff
it's been going downhill a lot faster, and the Chinese seems to be going uphill
they are building themselves up a market, the only reason their made in Mexico is because
it's cheaper, the Chinese are building things up, and yeah they can sell them
cheaper, but they seem to be more into quality, where in Mexico it's like that's
just a cheaper place to make, we'll make them there and we won't care, as an example
I've seen a lot of stuff in auto zone now, that
they're switching from Mexico to China, I talked to a guy that works at them at a higher
level, and he said yeah they sent us to China and we looked at the
quality control and we analyzed which are better and which are worse and we're
moving more towards Chinese parts and away from the Mexican parts, so I would
say China, ken land what do you do when everything is made in
China every name brand, I'm just under the impression that there's very few
quality automotive parts that come out of China, now there used to be the truth,
but today they're actually quite a few quality parts that come out of China, you
have to understand that in China they actually make a very good cars, because
their new factories all started from scratch, they're very automated, their big
problems from what I read over there is the workers that they have most of them
have to be engineers, because they have to be able to fix the robots that make
the cars, reprogram them, and help design things, so their labor costs are really
high there, now they don't have nearly as many people working on it cuz the robots
build them, which is kind of funny when you think about it, because there's so many
people in China, you think they wouldn't care, but they're very modern and they
make some very good products these days they don't sell the cars yet in the
United States, but they sell them in other parts of the world, I have various
Chinese things that are great, Jacks hydraulic presses, it's a matter of
quality control, and if somebody wants to make quality control they can, and sure
you know there's a lot of junk that's made in China, just go to ebay you'll see
people selling all kinds of stuff and you know there's gonna be a real
difference when you can get a brand-new power steering pump from the dealer and
it's $800, and then there's this ebay chinese one for 49.95, you
know the quality isn't gonna be there, I mean come on that's only common sense, a
lot of the stuff is made China, I've worked on Ford's the original equipment
starter was made in China, so you know a lot of stuffs made there now, and it's
only gonna probably even get bigger and bigger as time goes on, it's just that
you got to make sure that it's a quality one, one that has a name of a company
that wants to put their name on it, and most of the bigger companies now they
are putting their names on it, because they know, hey they're building up a
reputation and they could stand behind it, where any old days all's it said was
made in China and no name of a company, those you want to stay away from, the August
spring Scotty I'm 18 years old living in Sweden, I'm thinking about buying a
Jaguar s-type r v8 supercharged you think it's a
good idea, well it is if you have a rich father, my wife's niece, she used to date
a guy in Sweden when she lived in England
and his parents were millionaires, and if it was him go right
ahead what the heck, they got millions to throw into the thing, their fun to
drive they're fast and their endless money pits, but if you have a millionaire
father and he gives you money why not have some fun with it you know, Mark
says Scotty I used to have a good mechanic he's retired and I can't find a
new one, they charge 100 bucks an hour in Australia so you expect a good job
basically I'm just paying more money for bigger liess what can I do, okay
well you know we live in a capitalist society, go way back
into greek days where that philosopher said, he looked for an honest man his
whole life and he never found one, everything's based on money so people
are always trying to make money, and unfortunately in a mechanic situation a
lot of them are working somewhere so owner takes his cut
the insurance companies take their cut, the government take their tax cut
mechanics got to get paid, so it just becomes a vicious spiral of
greed, now if you can, try to find a guy like me work for himself, because then at
least the overhead is much less, I've always worked out of my garage and low
overhead I don't have to mess with people to make
money, I can just charge a fair price and have a good living, you know there's
nothing wrong with that, but unfortunately most mechanics work
somewhere where there's layers and layers and layers, and guess who's paying
for all those layers, you as the customer it's unfortunate but that's the way it
is in our society today, so if you never want to miss another one of my new car
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