Re: More crappy parts

The ACVW world is not alone in the crappy parts department.Lots of
"offshore"made lookalikes are finding their way to FLAPS nowadays.Beware of
bargains.I find super cheap parts are a crap shoot,even for modern cars.Pay
a little bit more and the part is probably OK.Bosch parts do seem to run the
gamit though with no clear pattern.If you're lucky,you get what you pay
for.Steve
"Braukuche" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Good gried, the qulaity of VW parts is shockingly bad lately or maybe I;m
just
> ona bad run of luck. I just finished a resto on a '60 ragtop for my wife
so I
> wanted ot make the car as bullet proof as possible so I used all new parts
on
> the engine. The exception was the gennie which was a Bosch remanufactured
unit.
> That gennie lasted all of two minutes before it fried. I replaced it with
a
> nother reman unit from Bosch and that one fried within two minutes. I then
> ended up buying a brand new unit which has worked fine. So, two days ago I
get
> a call from my wife that the car is acting up, like it is running out of
gas. I
> switch cars with her at work and try to limp it home but to no avail and
had to
> have it towed. Turns out the brand new Brazillian made pump fried after
about
> 2,000 miles of service. I replaced it with a Mexican made unit which
according
> to the FLAPs guy (an old VW dealer parts man) is closer to to the oem
design
> than the Brazillian pump. Anyway the car runs great now, but I am getting
> pretty sick of the shoddy quality out there in parts land.
> --Dan E