|
10-06-2004, 07:45 PM
|
#1 |
|
Registered User
 
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Bradenton, FL
Posts: 1,036
|
Made In Taiwan
I bought a gass filter a the local Chevy dealer and found Made in Taiwan on the package. Whats up with that. Even GM is starting to sell that junk.
__________________
1970 CST/10 402,700R4,3:73 posi,AC,PS,PB,TLT,PW,Buckets with heaters |
|
|
|
10-06-2004, 07:52 PM
|
#2 |
|
Member since 2000
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Mountain View Ca / Mexico
Posts: 7,879
|
labor cost & production.
Last edited by Alexis; 10-06-2004 at 07:58 PM. |
|
|
|
|
10-06-2004, 08:00 PM
|
#3 |
|
71 Chevy 4x4
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: McMinnville,Tn. USA
Posts: 450
|
Sad , but , its the amercian way !!!!!!!!
__________________
Tenn.man(a.k.a.Danny Cummings) |
|
|
|
|
10-06-2004, 08:54 PM
|
#4 |
|
Account Suspended
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Texas
Posts: 2,686
|
Its a Damn Crying Shame Too.
|
|
|
|
|
10-06-2004, 08:58 PM
|
#5 |
|
Project Junkie! Fishing Poor!!
 
Join Date: Dec 1999
Location: Olympia,Wa. 98512
Posts: 10,768
|
Buy one of their ignition switches for $34.95 and look where they are made. (Made in Mexico) Nothing wrong with that, but I sell the exact same switch made in the same place as a reproduction for $19.95 WES www.ClassicHeartbeat.com
__________________
On-line catolog Classic Heartbeat Pickup Parts WEHEPP@comcast.net Call us Toll Free (888) 338-2502 Like Us on Facebook No appointment necessary. 72 BB Chevy Custom Deluxe / Custom Camper 67 I-6 (Soon to be 5.7 LS1) Panel 68 BB Chevy Short Bed 72 6.0 LQ9 Short Bed Chevy 4X4 Olympia's fastest growing truck parts supplier. Olympia's home for Wayward Chevys |
|
|
|
|
10-06-2004, 09:02 PM
|
#6 |
|
Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Mesquite, Tx
Posts: 396
|
You'll never be able to get away from it. I bought some Craftsman precision screwdrivers the other day and they too were made in another country. It's sad. Most of those countries probably don't even import stuff from our country!
__________________
GM 330HP/350, Magnuson 122HH, Tremec TKO 5spd |
|
|
|
|
10-06-2004, 09:07 PM
|
#7 |
|
its all about the +6 inches
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Hilliard Ohio
Posts: 2,693
|
You don't think GM is just starting to do this do you?
|
|
|
|
|
10-06-2004, 09:12 PM
|
#8 |
|
Account Suspended
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Texas
Posts: 2,686
|
They've been doing it for years. I just read in a paper recnetly that they were building a new transmission plant somewhere overseas.
|
|
|
|
|
10-06-2004, 09:34 PM
|
#9 |
|
Member since 2000
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Mountain View Ca / Mexico
Posts: 7,879
|
In china, the chinese market has been booming in the past year. It slowing down but still money to be made by the big players.
|
|
|
|
|
10-06-2004, 11:16 PM
|
#10 |
|
PROJECT 7DEUCE
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: GRANTS PASS OR
Posts: 21,608
|
Cheap labor equal's bigger profit's....
__________________
GO BIG GREEN  GO DUCKSMEMBER #6377 72 k-5 daily driver 6'' lift 35'' 350-350-205 slowly getting rust free. Project "7DEUCE" check out my build http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=267665 Tim Powell..R.I.P EastSideLowlife..... R.I.P.. |
|
|
|
|
10-06-2004, 11:47 PM
|
#11 |
|
Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: WIS
Posts: 1,752
|
Ooc
George Sr. started it all with NAFTA years ago to help out our neighbors. Now it's out of control.
|
|
|
|
|
10-07-2004, 08:44 AM
|
#12 |
|
Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: calhoun city ms
Posts: 940
|
George Sr. did not bring in NAFTA, it was the playboy president "honest" bill clinton. NAFTA was a major part of Ross Perot's campaign as far as he being against it.
__________________
ongoing 1970 c 10 lwb  1994 z-28 few mods.-owned since new  1978 vette silver/grey 25th anniv. paint 
|
|
|
|
|
10-07-2004, 03:43 PM
|
#13 |
|
Goodbye Darlin'
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Coupeville, WA USA
Posts: 330
|
Uh oh... politics. Follow the money trail, quality & integrity be damned. Profit margin is King. Sad but true.
__________________
1971 Blazer CST SOLD! |
|
|
|
|
10-07-2004, 03:56 PM
|
#14 |
|
Account Suspended
Join Date: Jun 2000
Location: over yonder
Posts: 14,270
|
Get used to it fellas ... and Coming Soon! Made in China on EVERTHING!
Manufacturing is a dying segment of our economy boys ... it has turned into a Service Based economy. Sad, but true. |
|
|
|
|
10-07-2004, 05:37 PM
|
#15 |
|
Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Westminster, CO
Posts: 3,071
|
hey China has produced so really fine things...ah...wasn't her name Asia Carerra...or was that Japan....lol
__________________
Alex 1971 Lil' Red 350 SBC 700R4 |
|
|
|
|
10-07-2004, 05:38 PM
|
#16 |
|
Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Calgary, Alberta,Canada
Posts: 1,595
|
GM makes the 3.4 engines in China in the "NEW" Equinox.
__________________
I know what your thinking.......I have ESPN.  Sometimes it's easier to do things the hard way.  Fesler Built 1968 Chevy C10....Must resist the urge to mess with it!! 
|
|
|
|
|
10-07-2004, 09:54 PM
|
#17 |
|
72 Cheyenne
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: San Diego
Posts: 2,086
|
I went to the ATM one day and someone had stuck a sticker of an America Flag next to the keyboard, I noticed that he had drawn an arrow on the sticker pointing down to a tiny print in the bottom corner that read "Made in Taiwan"
|
|
|
|
|
10-07-2004, 10:50 PM
|
#18 |
|
Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Beeville, Texas
Posts: 1,943
|
Just bought a new ignition switch from AutoZone a couple weeks ago for 10 bucks, and it was made in Mexico. Whadya expect, it was from AutoZone.
__________________
RJD 1984 Chevrolet C30 welding truck 454/SM465 1977 GMC C15 pickup 350/TH350 1970 Chevrolet C20 pickup 350/TH400 1970 Chevrolet K20 Suburban 454/TH350 1969 GMC 8500 478M V6/5 spd winch truck |
|
|
|
|
10-07-2004, 11:23 PM
|
#19 |
|
Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Paradise TX USA
Posts: 1,200
|
I remember back in 1984 I was working at a Chrysler dealership when they were running their patriotic "THE PRIDE IS BACK" "BORN IN AMERICA CAMPAIGN"
Their best selling vehicle was the new mini-van which was built in Canada, with the optional 2.6L Mitsubishi ( Japanese) engine?
__________________
"Negative people always seem to have a problem for every solution" |
|
|
|
|
10-07-2004, 11:43 PM
|
#20 |
|
SLOW BUT SURE,BUT CLOSER
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: eleanor wv usa
Posts: 3,094
|
The plant that I work at was a VW stamping facility. In '87 VW moved the equipment to Mexico. Over 700 out of work, the plant manager and a group of investors opened it back up. In '96 they sold to Mayflower out of England. We press and assemble the lift gate for the 'burbs and escalades which is shipped to Mexico where their built. So we lost the plant to Mexico and now ship to Mexico.
__________________
69 C-10, OWNED 38YRS... 350 over 30, 350 Turbo, 3:73 Posi P/S, P/B Black with red and black int. ''LOVE THESE OLD ''TRUCKS.......
|
|
|
|
|
10-08-2004, 01:32 AM
|
#21 |
|
Account Suspended
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Texas
Posts: 2,686
|
Alot of things are Heco En Mexico Nowadays Anyone Look at some late model 993 cast heads?
To top that I just tore down a Motor earlier that had been "Built" and someone had put a new Gm True Roller Timing Chain Well i scratched my head on that one Cause i assume its higher than say a cloyes. But i was eyeing it over And on the links it said Made in taiwan . Stupid Junk. And its not that they dont make a good product some things are machine operated and have to use a certain tolerance steel etc etc. Kinda one of them hard to mess up just load the machine push some buttons type of deal.... If Not fully automated. But i have heard that in the past japan and all the other oversea outfits used recylced car bodys and Iron to make tools and anything that got a bad rep for breaking and being Cheap "Jap" Steel |
|
|
|
|
10-08-2004, 01:45 AM
|
#22 |
|
hmm...
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Culver, Indiana
Posts: 1,631
|
Sorry to say this, but it's all because of the unions. Think about it.
If my company makes widgets in Cleveland Ohio, and is union, I have to pay medical insurance, dental insurance, higher wages, and a bunch of other benefits. The cost to the buyer will be pretty high, and that will also raise taxes since it's on a percentage basis of the total cost. Another company makes the identical widget at a comparable quality, but it farms it's work out to China where they can pay people $5 a day to make these. They don't have to pay any benefits and will do pay raises when they want to. Much cheaper labor force, so even with shipping the parts back here, they can make the part cheaper to buy and will sell more than me and be on top. Or, they can sell it at the same cost as mine, since most people don't care that the stuff isn't made in the US, and still beat me in price because they will have less to pay for and make more money that way. How can I compete with that? By firing all my employees and moving overseas. This is why you hear about layoffs and job losses, not anything the government is doing.
__________________
1983 Oldsmobile Delta 88 1967 Chevy C-10 stripper www.fcrperformance.com - wanna go...faster? talk to FCR. |
|
|
|
|
10-08-2004, 02:10 AM
|
#23 |
|
Account Suspended
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Texas
Posts: 2,686
|
Whats a Widget?
|
|
|
|
|
10-08-2004, 02:16 AM
|
#24 | |
|
Member since 2000
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Mountain View Ca / Mexico
Posts: 7,879
|
Quote:
widg·et n. 1. A small mechanical device or control; a gadget. 2. An unnamed or hypothetical manufactured article. |
|
|
|
|
|
10-08-2004, 06:19 PM
|
#25 |
|
Account Suspended
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Texas
Posts: 2,686
|
Ohh that explained it
|
|
|
|
 |
| Bookmarks |
| Thread Tools | |
| Display Modes | |
|
|
Linear Mode
