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Club House => Chatter => Topic started by: guest1247 on August 18, 2016, 08:47:42 PM
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Back in February of this year, I was in need of a front brake switch for the little CL400 ... So I took a ride to a local .. ish Honda dealer about 20 miles from me ... Not a super scarce, or rare item you'd think ... The guy serving was someone I had dealt with many times before... "That will have to come from Japan I'm afraid ... could quite easily take a month, or maybe more ... I've got some Chinese ones, they are universal ... even got them in stock." .... "Well, in that case, I'll take one then .... only a tenner..? That'll do then." Yes, I can hear you laughing already..!!! .... It has only lasted six months ... So, mindful of my hard earned being frittered away on something that isn't going to last, I thought that this time I would get the genuine article ... and not wanting to wait a month, I called David Silver Spares ... "No problem, we can get one for you, about a week, £26-50 please." As promised, in less than said week, a tiny little switch arrived ... all wrapped nicely in a genuine Honda wrapper .... Guess where it was made .......... Yep, you guessed right ...!!!! AAAARRRRGGGGHHHHH....!!!!!!
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Almost every small electrical item is now made in China. But quality does vary wildly. I had 2 dip switch / horn pushes for my Sunbeam from different suppliers. One was unusable and very poorly made; the other (which cost about £1 more) was far better. But you never know till you actually see the thing in the flesh.
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Where doesn't matter, its who manages the factory. British Leyland vs Nissan Sunderland. Honda in 1944 (banned by the Jaoanese Military for making ****) vs Honda in 1980 etc.
Andy
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I had a duff MZ carburettor off ebay a while back. Wrong in various ways, but I damaged it trying so new I couldn;t have a refund. Put on bad feedback to warn others and got it cancelled by ebay. What little trust I had in ebay has now gone - how do we know what is crap and what isn't.
Back to original suppliers, lesson learnt, again.