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wondering if only a few on the board have melodramatic presence.
Please elaborate.
have had 90% bad experience with chinese auto parts.
Yes, yet we suffer, as Bill Clinton said, "Globalism is good for you," just prior to signing the multi-bill schema we now call the Free China Trade Agreement with Newt Gingrich and Al Gore.
Just say no to the Trans Pacific Partnership, yet it will pass.
dumb question dont brake parts sold here have to survive safety standards?
The US DOT requirements for brake systems, and corresponding components therein are somewhat vague and deal with performance characteristics based on vehicle size, the braking area between the brake shoe or pad and the brake drum of disk. There is some minimum component and configuration for the type of brake. Not brake alloy recipes and brake pad composition. Yet brake fluid is well controlled as we have DOT 3 and DOT 4 and DOT 5 (silicon) brake fluid.
Read though it here at http://www.dot.gov/regulations
While all of the all-too-precious Volvo-developed metal alloys and material compositions are now in the hands of Geely, I truly doubt what we receive will be of the same quality, as you and many others on the brickboard, and other import and american auto enthusiast boards.
There exist little incentive for Geely Made in China Volvo to support us and our 240s anymore.
It is not that quality metallurgy, foundry, and casting is beyond Chinese capability. It is costing, and do it as cheap as possible while providing minimal quality and minimum price. SO, the U.S. consumer wants to pay as little as possible, or will make that choice, when there is a choice, between Made in Italy (now China) Brembo Brakes or the Made in China Meyle stut mounts that may fail catastrophically had I left them on the Volvo 240.
You may read all over the boards on import and american autos that have failing tie rods or ball joints. They may have a Germany name (Meyle), yet it is Made in China. I have read on BMW boards of failing recently installed ball joints on BMWs. (I just read these boards.)
So, yes, minimum standards. The manufacturing may say they are ISO 9000/9001, and other control, compliant. We can all keep up appearances in the Age of the New Elocutionary (since the late 19th century). Yet should the part fail, as such organization do an end-around of tort laws, as well as using arbitration agreements to negate the need for a day court to settle a liability matter, well, rest assured all is done to negate vendor liability, so you capture all the risk when you buy, install, and use that part.
All you need do is buy the part, and you may have entered a binding arbitration agreement with any knowledge of doing so.
Liability attorneys are probably scheming up ways to deal with it. Maybe not.
I dunno.
Does that help?
cheers,
Rather Reside in Just and Verdant Finland.
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