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08-07-2011, 02:19 AM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: On The Footplate.
Posts: 5,086
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Yes, it's an old and well known problem. The "brand name" bits go out the front door of the factory, and our the side door go the "no name" parts in blank boxes for discount prices...same quality inside, but maybe lesser paint quality or cheaper packaging.
When we owned our Landcruiser, I wanted a snorkel for it. I was aghast at the $600 plus fitting price of them here, and someone suggested looking online. I mean come on...a moulded piece of plastic tube with some fittings? I found a Chinese mob based in Hong Kong that had a simply vast number of fourbie accessories, and there was the snorkel. Someone on a fourbie forum even said that, suspiciously, the part number they quoted on the website was identical to an ARB number for a 100 series snorkel...odd, that. The price was $200 landed at my door, and they offered that they could supply " as many as I liked, from individual ones to a container load" for special prices...no wonder some guys do it for a living on the side. |
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Re: China to Buy Ford or Holden!!!!!
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