rev up your engines made in China today I'm gonna talk about problem I see all
too often these days counterfeit or cheap knockoff car parts now here's the
part of customer bought it was a mass airflow sensor as you can see it was
made in China now unfortunately the vehicle that went on was made in Japan
and the original mass airflow sensor was made in Japan Chinese made one was less
than 100 bucks and the original equipment factory one was three hundred
and fifty bucks the customer decided to try the Chinese one I guess what bit him
and me in the rear end cuz when I put it in actually ran worse than it did was
the old one I put the old one back and drove it around looked at the data and I
put the new one in the new one actually had worse data than the old one that had
been worn up and when it comes to fixing cars nothing and I mean nothing is worse
than you find what the problem is you were placed apart it doesn't fix the
problem so you think gee it must have been something else we'll need to find
out later if you ever do find out that yes the original part was bad but the
cheap knockoff replacement part wasn't any good either
and unfortunately even I've gotten stung by this check on my wife's Lexus bad
lights were all fogged up so I thought oh I'll get a cool more modern style set
to put on well I did look what happened to year and a half later that no one's
starting to crack look at that I gotta polish them up they're all crack
because they were poorly made in China guess what it's like these cool looking
lens I put on your matrix check it out inside the plastic is a bubbling out I
mean just poor quality and unfortunately I see this more and more every day
talking about is cheap knockoff oil filters in this case it's an STP but you
look closely it's made in China now good oil filters don't cost that much maybe
eight or ten bucks if you buy the ice quad you want don't go out and buy these
dollar ninety-nine two dollar ones you get a chance at with your engine to save
five six bucks that's just stupid now there's tons of good oil filters
there I got a whole video on there's really only a few manufacturers of oil
filters like you take the Pennzoil platiunum oil filters penzoil is an oil
company they don't make oil filters I believe Fram makes those but it's
their high-end ones that do have silicone gaskets better valves and I
drain back valves inside they're perfectly fine so you buy one of those
for 8 or 10 bucks or something or buy them and volume on Amazon or Ebay and
get them cheaper as long as they're the actual ones and don't say made in China
those are great oil filters but please don't buy the cheapest ones you can get
your hands on 99 cents a dollar 99 they don't filter as well and especially
these days people put more and more mileage before they change it the
filters got a filtered even some of the cheap ones will say oh good up to 3,000
miles where the more expensive ones will say ten thousand miles or 15,000 miles
they last longer they filter better for a few bucks if
you're not changing your oil every three but change it in every eight or ten get
the more expensive filter it's worth it as you can see from the inside of this
quality filter it's got silicone it has a metal relief film not a plastic one
and it's got many more pleats made of synthetic material it actually filter
better I'm talking about is air filters you don't want to buy the cheapest air
filter either because they just don't filter as well well count them one two
three four five six seven eight nine 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 you could
tell it's bigger 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 it's also wider bigger
surface area it's gonna filter better plus the OEM filters they're often a
better material if you look they're often thicker they've got a lot more
filtration ability and here's something a lot of people don't think about the
air filter is before the mass airflow sensor yes you have a cheap after-market
filter little fibers can break off they get sucked through the mass airflow
sensor the mass airflow sensors are often hot water sensors and what that
means is that when you shut the car off or when you start it up the mass air
flow sensor hot water gets hot and it burns impurities off if
fibers from a cheap air filter get on there can burn out your ass airflow
sensor some of those things can cost three four five hundred dollars do you
really want to gamble that to save a couple bucks on an air filter and for
your safety don't get cheap knockoff tires especially cheap Chinese red ones
check these out so here we'll turn the camera upside down and we look closely
it says made in USA now these particular tires have been honored for like 12
years and they're starting to get a little dry rot so I need to change them
soon but they've never had a flap they still got a ton of tread left on them
before that this car had Chinese tires on it when I bought it and they were so
poorly made that they kept losing air which is why I bought new ones and
here's the weird thing they were just losing air through
osmosis I take them off I put them in the bathtub fill it up with water no
bubbling so it didn't show any leaks but that cap losing pressure
they were just losing it through the casing of the tire it was so poorly
manufactured that the air just over time was leaking out now I didn't in a
bathtub because we just sit there I'm assuming that when you drove down a
highway at highway speeds the tire got hotter then the air started to leak out
more but regardless the Chinese made ones leaked air these babies haven't
leaked there in 12 years so don't buy cheap knockoff tires and if you don't
like no I don't buy cheap brake pants I don't know how many hundreds of times
that people got me a car they said Scotty we put brakes on it but it's
squeaking like man what's wrong and I take them off and I look and I said you
got these cheap brake pads they're just made too cheap and they make a lot of
noise I just tell if you don't like noise by these Akebono pads
I bought Akebono pads it's a Japanese company they make excellent brake pads
yeah they cost more but so why did you spend 20 or 30 dollars more on a set of
brake pads it's gonna last you today you might get seventy eighty thousand miles
or more out of a set of brake pads what do you care if it's twenty or thirty
bucks extra for peace of mind for a quality product it will make hardly any
noise at all it really breaks our safety item they turn all the kinetic energy of
your car when you're going 60 miles an hour and slam on the brakes into heat
energy they have to dissipate he you doubled when I go cheap on brake
pads at a customer you want to save money on parts for his cars so he went
to one of these online buyers and he was buying some brake calipers that were
Delco now if you know anything about Delco the name is spelled DELCO now
the calipers he brought me to put on his vehicle they said Delco too but they
came in an unmarked box and when I pulled the calipers out casting them was
Delco DELKO it was cast in a steel but it was spelled wrong so that
particular one was a dead giveaway they spelled Delco wrong and like I said it was
a non mark box tactically here in the United States the boxes are all supposed
to say where the product comes from nor in the case of this bad mass airflow
sensor at least it says mag China you know where it's coming from I don't
particularly advise buying these chinese-made ones for air sensors but at
least to told you where it was from always check the box says main China and
it's an electronic part I would be extremely leery about putting it on my
car especially something like a mass airflow sensor that measures how much
air goes into the engine and grants per second tells the computer how much fuel
to push in the engines of the fuel injectors by how many milliseconds it
sprays it's a very complex stuff and often the knockoff parts just will not
perform correctly right out of the box or they break within a few months I've
seen that happen too now purely mechanical simple parts it could be okay
like this he's a dog bone mount it's motor mount it was made in Thailand they
don't go to work in Thailand this thing's been on here for a long time
it's all that point well no problems it's actually lasting better than the
original one my English motorcycle Triumph air it was made in Thailand it's
the best triumph I've read what I've seen a factory job in Thailand is a good
job I got friends from Thailand they said sooner you got a job they're
getting paid that's a good job that can support a whole bunch of their family
off of that they make Ducati motorcycles in Thailand they make all kinds of stuff
from Thailand there's nothing wrong with our stuff it's like got motor mounts
it's steel and rubber it's not rocket science making those things like I said
electronic stuff not so much you don't want to get some cheap after-market one
dark I used to make pretty good batteries in United States ages ago
most of their production from what I see comes from South Korea seeing a lot of
Delco batteries they say made in South Korea guess what they seem to be some of
the worst batteries I've ever seen years ago a chain here that was called
Charlie's high-low they used to sell them they sold them pretty cheap for
like 29 bucks apiece I bought scores of them within a year or
two every single one of them came back because it was bad and here's the reason
behind that when I was young mechanic we had batteries at the gas station they
were sealed vacuum sealed there was no acid item customer wanted a battery we
popped the seals repor battery acid and charge it on a charge of machine for
about an hour so theoretically batteries could last forever because they were
vacuum sealed there was nothing going on once you put the acid and they start to
deteriorate well these Delco batteries made in South
Korea they are made with acid in then they ship them over here they're sealed
batteries you can't add anything anyways even if you wanted to as they're coming
by ship forever they make it over here they're degrading over time by the time
people get them here I start using them blood acid batteries their lifespan
starts to deteriorate as soon as you put the acid in I've had customers buy those
they'll get a year and then they go back they just deteriorated that badly what
you want from a battery is the freshest bad you can like eggs you want one that
it's a small possibility go someplace where they sell a lot of batteries I
personally go to an autozone that's two blocks down the street because one it's
two blocks down the street and they sell a ton of batteries so they have a big
turnover batteries they're always getting fresh ones in and even then I
look at the little date sticker they all have date stickers and if you don't
comprehend it have them explain they can tell you how old that battery is my
advice if it's more than a month old don't buy it get one that's less than a
month old certainly I want this three or four or five or six months old because
it's been sitting on a shelf deteriorating they're not made to sit
being full of acid to my knowledge the only place left
where you can get a vacuum-sealed battery there's a mercedes-benz dealer
for the Big giant Mercedes last time I bought one they had them and
popped it with the acid and charged it and a way you want because a lifespan of
that is pretty much indefinite because there's no acid in it yet so you can sit
there for years not so once they put the acid now if you don't work on your car
take e to this Jeep from the right side of channellock players main China it's
so cheap that it doesn't even tell you that it's made in China I know it is cuz
it sets on the box but the tool itself doesn't say anything it doesn't tell you
where it's made when they don't tell you where they're made they've made some
cheap place that's just the way it goes these days and I know a little bit more
about cheaper knockoff auto parts or tool and how you can discern the good
from the bad from the really ugly, so if you never want to miss another one of my
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