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You may have a point here, but there is also erosion of expectations going on in the consumer industry. When 20 years ago you bought a TV set, a refrigerator or another big ticket item you expected it to last at least 20 years and often these product exceeded expectations. Now everything is disposable and has short life span. And what's really sad is that the consumers are getting used to it little by little. So, what used to be quality in a Volvo box is not necessarily the same thing as what today's Volvo box contains. That's my fear. Of course, these rotors were $30 each, which is half the price of what they used to be even back in the day. This makes me worried. One tends to get what one pays for and a $30 Chinese rotor will probably not last as long or perform as well as an old ATE one did. OF course the compensation for this is cheap price. The Walmart mentality is king now. Again, this worries me and it is false economy. If I have to install two sets of $30 rotors in the same time frame as a single $60 rotor would last, I am at a financial loss as a consumer. Same goes for that cheap Chinese tool. If you use the tool professionally and it lasts half the time for half the price you are at a loss because you will need to go and buy another tool. For a professional person time is money. But most people are totally ok with smaller upfront cost and lesser quality. This is what I call erosion of values. This happens slowly and takes a generation or so. Look at the telephone communications. If you compare an old ma Bell telephone set to what they call a phone today you will see a very big difference in sound quality and durability, but does anyone want to have anything with a corded phone today? No. Erosion of quality at the expense of cost and/or features that are at best cool, but mostly useless. Smart phones don't impress me because you still can't have a normal conversation on them. But hey, you can check your facebook. I don't care. Let me have a phone capable of phone calls first and then the rest of the stuff will be impressive. I guess I am getting old...
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Vladimir. '98 S70 base, 5-speed manual - his, '93 945 - hers
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