Date:         Wed, 2 Oct 2002 09:52:53 -0600
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From:         westydriver <westydriver@TACTICAL-BUS.INFO>
Subject:      Re: More & More Info on Copper Core German Radiators
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which were made from parts obtained where???
look at your made in america parts.  made from parts obtained where??
or have you even checked and found out that made in america parts can
be distorted  statements because all pieces were made in america
shipped to mexico to be assembled and the returned to the US  as
mexican  products.  or if a us company brings it back  you find  made
in usa markings all  over the item but in fine print on the
label..assembled in mexico..anyone that can look at a mutipiece part
and believe that it is all of one origin is a believer in santa claus
and other impossible economic dreams.  there are countries in the world
that have a virtual lock on the production of parts of certain types.
economics is why.  germany does not produce  enough of  the different
types of steel used in an  auto industry to make all of the made in
germany parts and the US industry doesnt either.  there are a lot of
smaller countries that export auto parts to  the US and Germany and
Britain and Japan.  just one item, brake rotors.  Venezuala, Canada,
and China between them make 60 percent of the two major brake companies
in the US.

bosch  and hella, just two of  vw major parts vendors,  have plants in
over  14  countries.  these plants make small parts as well as larger
units.
jimt
On Wednesday, Oct 2, 2002, at 06:45 America/Denver, George Goff wrote:
\renewing a van.  Whether purchased from a VW specialty shop or the VW
dealer,
> the dozens of parts which I have bought were ALL made in Germany.  \