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Date:         Thu, 17 Feb 2005 17:45:17 -0600
Reply-To:     Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Jim Felder <felder@KNOLOGY.NET>
Subject:      Re: OEM vs Aftermarket  -- WAS: where is the best buy for drums
              and rotors?
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Possibly a rebuild using VW castings, and ground off knowing that VW would come after anyone who used their logo? It would be much cheaper to fill in the lettering on the original molds once and get rid of the lettering forever than to have employees grind off thousands of VW and AUDI logos.

Jim

On Feb 17, 2005, at 5:31 PM, Dennis Haynes wrote:

> May have also been a reject by OEM standards but good enough for after > market sales? > > Dennis > > -----Original Message----- > From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf > Of Jeffrey Schwaia > Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 4:03 PM > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > Subject: OEM vs Aftermarket -- WAS: where is the best buy for drums and > rotors? > > Funny thing about some of the aftermarket parts: if you look closely, > you > see where the VW symbol has been ground off or covered up somehow. > Basically, it is a OEM part that has been defaced for non-OEM sales. > > Cheers, > > Jeff > www.vanagonparts.com >


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