I think we all agree that not everything manufactured in China in the last 10 years, is junk. The biggest issue in auto/electronic parts quality issue, is China's inability to stop, enforce, control, and ban counterfeiting of name brand parts. Every day they flood the US markets with knockoffs, some built by the same plant that just finished a run under licensing. They will just keep running the molds well beyond the engineering tolerance levels as they get to pick up 50% more margin.

IMHO, I try to use band names distributed through known and approved sources, as I am not in the metallurgy and testing business deep enough to confirm every part is within specs. (IF I had access to the engineering drawings!) That would be anal. I stop my anal tendencies at cleaning levels.

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2005 X5 4.8IS
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