Id have to agree, not just for BMW but in general. I will spend the time to track down where the replacement parts are made and will not buy Chinese if I can help it, unless its a plastic beauty cover for a bolt head or something along those lines. Further in my extensive search fro all sorts of parts for the E39, E53, and E90 chassis I have found a very small percentage of high end branded (mahle, lemforder, meyle, febi/bilstein, etc.) parts to be manufactured in China and come to think of it I don't believe I have actually ran across a single OEM part that has. URO and the rest of the ebay crowd however, most of that garbage is Chinese and half the time is not manufactured within spec.