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Sirus said:
I think your assuming they were from the same farm in the first place though;) and not a mixed box from the cheapest bidders
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Yes that's about it. Same item, from same farm, one regarded as better because it was higher priced. It happens with car parts believe me. But it is getting much harder than it used to be to differentiate. You once had good names you could trust, and the rest you could take a chance on. Now you really don't know anymore which is which. The good stuff is still good but expensive. The middle ground could all be the same at different prices, depending on the business plan of the company. Ergo the tomatoes.
 
britpart or bearmach offer a range of parts oem ,geuine land rover ,various named parts eg quenten hazel ferrodo etc and unnamed budget parts if you just pick the cheapest what do you expect,ive found their cheapset brake discs have preformed perfectly for years and they need to as mines 3.9 auto ,they do timikin bearings at at fraction of the cost of some suppliers ,but their unnamed bearings arent worth fitting unless you only need a weeks use of your car ,britpart h/d yellow springs and gas shockers have performed pefectly in my experience nothing wrong with britpart as they do as good a range of good parts as either bearmach or allmakes its just that they also do some cheap **** as an option
 
jamesmartin said:
britpart or bearmach offer a range of parts oem ,geuine land rover ,various named parts eg quenten hazel ferrodo etc and unnamed budget parts if you just pick the cheapest what do you expect,ive found their cheapset brake discs have preformed perfectly for years and they need to as mines 3.9 auto ,they do timikin bearings at at fraction of the cost of some suppliers ,but their unnamed bearings arent worth fitting unless you only need a weeks use of your car ,britpart h/d yellow springs and gas shockers have performed pefectly in my experience nothing wrong with britpart as they do as good a range of good parts as either bearmach or allmakes its just that they also do some cheap **** as an option
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many peeps don't know what's good and what's bad from BP - that's the problem, not knowing how long parts will last
 
generally all the little rubber / moulded bits are truly rubbish. tolerances are way off and materials are poor. for example i got fir trees and snap locks for the trim but they either bend or break. i got a slave cylinder repair kit and it tore in a week. the o-rings i bought to replace old hardened ones in various places all leaked. but the other stuff is usually ok. right now i've 4 shocks, 2 airbags, and 120A alternator all running fine. the set of o rings and the alternator were what they replaced without any problems. we even identified the problem was a bad diode in the rectifier and i said i'd be happy if they just sent a new rectifier but they just sent me out a complete new alternator instead.
 
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fett said:
I bought some lockheed delphi discs for the front and they said made in EU.
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Well they could well be EU in your case but I know they definitely source some Disc product in China, which is fine becuse they have the necessary contols in place to ensure good consistent quality. Think the point I was trying to make was that there is good Chinese product as well as bad. Delphi have several factories in China, mainly producing electronic, engine management and ABS product. The Brakes product is a bit of a hang over from when Delphi were distributing all the AP Lockheed Brakes product (rather than manufacturing).

What can also happen as well is that product is subsequently relabeled by a Wholesaler/Distributor who buys the product in the UK from Delphi and records it as a UK/EU purchase.
 
When I was in me early 20's I worked for a company called United Technologies. They made wiring harnesses for ford, rover & Honda. Me mian job was operating an injection moulding press putting plastic block round a pair of brass connectors.

But about once a month they took delivery of a couple of truck loads of fully assembled wiring harnesses shipped from China they were removed from the packages and fitted onto the test boards and checked. then all labels were removed and replace with our labels and packaged into our boxes and sent onto ford, rover & honda as if they had been made in Peterborough.. I wouldn't take any notice of any of the packaging that your parts come in..
 
A classic example of this is Bosch which is one of our biggest customers for our group the original parts which are made from rubber have tight tolerances which are produced from our company and not many manufactures can achieve this then later on through production they change some of their parts with cheap china parts and they can't keep the same tolerances and thus the parts do suffer!! All parts which are supplied to automotive companies are whats called PPAP - Production Part Approval Process this involves a tight quality control on the parts which are checked with a stringent process and the parts have to meet the original drawing tolerances. Then later on because of cost cutting they get re sourced to cheaper manufactures and they cannot meet the original tolerances of the parts and this is when it ends up being inferior parts.

This is the same with automotive manufacturers Land Rover included with the example of changing the K series dowels from metal to plastic all for the sake of approx 8 pence per piece and it was a complete co@k up because the plastic dowels are a piece of sh@t!! Its all about cost cutting and F@ck the consumer.
 
All I know is that after the grief I've had with ****part I would never buy another part from them.
I specifically ask when I purchase LR stuff online or over the phone if the item
is ****part.
I have never had a problem with other budget parts for LR.
You pay a bit extra, you usually get good quality stuff, buying cheap you get cheap but fit for purpose, you buy ****part you get **** not fit for purpose at all.:mad:

****part, don't do it, it's not worth it...:doh:
 
LRO said:
All I know is that after the grief I've had with ****part I would never buy another part from them.
I specifically ask when I purchase LR stuff online or over the phone if the item
is ****part.
I have never had a problem with other budget parts for LR.
You pay a bit extra, you usually get good quality stuff, buying cheap you get cheap but fit for purpose, you buy ****part you get **** not fit for purpose at all.:mad:

****part, don't do it, it's not worth it...:doh:
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Scotspart are worse. All made from the most common material available up there. Recycled larger cans.:D:D:D
 
wammers said:
That does not mean a lot these days. After all there is the famous and true story of the Japs renaming a town Sheffield so they could stamp "Made in Sheffield" on their cheap cutlery. Their maybe a few Germanys, Great Britains Etc somewhere in China for all we know.:D:D:D
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exactly - like Mc Donalds have a company called 100% Pure Beef Patties - so they can write that on their ads. Its a sick person who dreams up such manipulation of language and trust. Sh**part is what Britpart are know as in many circles of Australia. I had one of their radiators fail on me in a matter of days and the repairer said he had never seen such thin weak tanks on a radiator. A mate had one of their waterpumps fail on him in the first week. His missus was driving on her own and failed to see the signs and it cost him a D2 V8 rebuild. Shame that such rubbish is still being made in the 2000's. Any warranty from Lloyds is useless and totally meaningless when a part fails in the outback. Can easily cost a life, regardless of GPS or VHF contact... let alone the cost of recovery.
 
Because I don't do cover many miles annually these days (average 2k) I don't often need to replace parts, but ask yourself this: Where are LR 'genuine parts' (replacements for obsolete components that is) manufactured these days & are they worth the absurd price differential compared with the aforementioned supplier's offerings? I once replaced a genuine LR (bought from a main stealer) 'screen wash pump that never worked from fitment with a 'BP' component that did & both items looked identical, both to me & my Indy.
 
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norseman said:
Because I don't do cover many miles annually these days (average 2k) I don't often need to replace parts, but ask yourself this: Where are LR 'genuine parts' (replacements for obsolete components that is) manufactured these days & are they worth the absurd price differential compared with the aforementioned supplier's offerings?
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often not,though as ive stated many times britpart are wholesaler and sell genuine much cheaper than lr as well as pattern, there arent the original manufacturers still in existence apart from name ,you can still buy lucas green and white box parts but they are just pattern crap
 
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