The usual importers and brands have left and Russia is flooded with Chinese spare parts and consumables. In addition, due to the widest supply, prices for many items have fallen: take it and buy it, what questions? And yet questions arise more and more often. Even down to apparently the simplest elements. Details are on the AvtoVzglyad portal.
The exhibition of spare parts and technologies for car service that took place in the fall and which could better be called Chinese, demonstrated the widest range of different “things” produced by the extensive industry of the Middle Kingdom. A short review made it clear: there is a solution for every car problem – from brake pads to complete engines. Here we go! Moreover, the prices are very reasonable. Certainly closer to the truth than the prohibitive price tags on boxes of name brands.
There is nothing excessive or illegal in the desire to save money: in recent years the wallet has only become smaller and new holes in the belt appear with incredible speed. If you want to drive a car, turn around and at the highest speed. People, which is normal, look for simpler and cheaper options in the hope that our indigenous people ‘might be like that’. And he finds: Chinese analogues at an affordable price and apparently of good quality at first glance. And what can you do wrong with the same block, where the production technology was from the sixties, if not earlier! Unfortunately, it is possible.
Here is a box of sanitary napkins from an unknown Chinese brand, the purchase of which, thanks to Black Friday and the generosity of the market, amounted to a three-figure sum. Yes, the largest of the three-digit numbers, but still! Armed with the same “what could be wrong”, we buy it and install it on the car.
At the time of installation, there were no questions – they stood up clearly, as the doctor ordered. The scratches on the friction lining show that they have been in the caliper, albeit for a very short time: they have traveled no less than 14 kilometers. Already at 10 kilometers there was a shuffling sound that is familiar to experienced drivers. To the accompaniment of “It can’t be true”, “Your hands are just crooked” and other garage hits we enter the elevator. And there…
And there, comrades, there was a cracked plate and a huge fallen piece of friction lining, which fell off and disrupted the operation of the braking mechanism. It took ten city miles before the new brake pads fell apart and a ‘forced replacement’ was required. Was the game worth the candle? What if something bad happens on the highway?
But if we leave all the “ifs” to the grandparents, we arrive at a financially unbearable, but the only true axiom: free cheese comes only in a mousetrap, and miracles are not a story about car parts. In order for the braking mechanism – the most important thing in a car from a safety point of view – to work properly, saving even on consumables is unacceptable. And the stingy one ended up paying twice. Here is the Chinese range.
Photo from the portal “AvtoVzglyad”.
Photo from the portal “AvtoVzglyad”.
The exhibition of spare parts and technologies for car service that took place in the fall and which could better be called Chinese, demonstrated the widest range of different “things” produced by the extensive industry of the Middle Kingdom. A short review made it clear: there is a solution for every car problem – from brake pads to complete engines. Here we go! Moreover, the prices are very reasonable. Certainly closer to the truth than the prohibitive price tags on boxes of name brands.
There is nothing scandalous or illegal in the desire to save money: in recent years the wallet has only become smaller and new holes in the belt appear with incredible speed. If you want to drive a car, turn around and at the highest speed. People, which is normal, look for simpler and cheaper options in the hope that our indigenous people ‘might be like that’. And he finds: Chinese analogues at an affordable price and apparently of good quality at first glance. And what can you do wrong with the same block, where the production technology was from the sixties, if not earlier! Unfortunately, it is possible.
Here is a box of sanitary napkins from an unknown Chinese brand, the purchase of which, thanks to Black Friday and the generosity of the market, amounted to a three-figure sum. Yes, the largest of the three-digit numbers, but still! Armed with the same “what could be wrong”, we buy it and install it on the car.
At the time of installation, there were no questions – they stood up clearly, as the doctor ordered. The scratches on the friction lining show that they have been in the caliper, albeit for a very short time: they have traveled no less than 14 kilometers. Already at 10 kilometers there was a shuffling sound that is familiar to experienced drivers. To the accompaniment of “It can’t be true”, “Your hands are just crooked” and other garage hits we enter the elevator. And there…
And there, comrades, there was a cracked plate and a huge fallen piece of friction lining, which fell off and disrupted the operation of the braking mechanism. It took ten city miles before the new brake pads fell apart and a ‘forced replacement’ was required. Was the game worth the candle? What if something bad happens on the highway?
But if we leave all the “ifs” to the grandparents, we arrive at a financially unbearable, but the only true axiom: free cheese comes only in a mousetrap, and miracles are not a story about car parts. In order for the braking mechanism – the most important thing in a car from a safety point of view – to work properly, saving even on consumables is unacceptable. And the stingy one ended up paying twice. Here is the Chinese range.
Source: Avto Vzglyad
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