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Originally Posted by zzyzzx
I would assume that people in Germany, or anywhere else in Europe would be familiar with the crappy quality of Chinese car parts.
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No we are not. We get to be so lucky that European / German regulations hinder most of the most crappiest stuff to be sold here.
Take rims for example - Germany may produce one the cheaper tire rack rims (that even look good and fit the Alero) but even though they are a german company, their rims are too crappy to get a validation to be sold here.
And as these technical and safety validations are extremely expensive - you only do it with products that really meet these requirements, and are really worth it to be sold here (whether it being the number of sold units, or the profit you can get for each unit)
so we get spared (normally) by the rest of the world crap. But it can also be pretty annoying if you wanna upgrade your brakes or buy bigger rims.