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Originally Posted by SlvrFrs

All of you that are saying that you dont want to put forign over seas aftermarket parts on your car make no sense. The whole damn car from the factory is built and parts are sourced from over seas. I myself have an invidia N1 and love the look, sound, and fitment of the piece. Top notch

There's a big difference to me between products from japan, U.S., germany and products from china. Huge actually. Also learn to spell the word foreign if you're going to try to make an intelligent argument about the subject. Just my 2 cents.

Originally Posted by Dimman

The point isn't just 'overseas'. It's 'from countries that have shitty environmental and labour records, as well as a reputation of shining turds to sell when they aren't watched like a vigilant hawk by a company from a country that takes quality control seriously while fighting every trick by their devious partner to rip off their intellectual property and sell it out the back door.'

Heh...


Now a couple serious things.

One, if Invidia does a decent job of QC, Chinese-sourced stuff can be ok. It will never be great, or the best quality-wise, because sourcing decisions that fall to China are always cost-based. This cost-based decision usually means that design and innovation are also not priorities, since they add cost and can be risky. So if you end up with ok quality, ordinary design, (good enough) but low Chinese cost, it's pretty much a value win. Which is fine for a lot of people.

But if Invidia doesn't do its due diligence and crack the whip, there will often be cost-cutting measures that can range from annoying to dangerous (but less chance of danger with something like an exhaust). Typical bad oversight will be less rejection of finished parts, leading to the common scenario of fitment being perfect for one customer (part is to spec) but another customer is tearing out their hair in frustration (part should have been rejected or sent for rework, but that costs money that is hard to make up on the super low margins).

Ideally Invidia (or whatever Chinese-sourced Brand X) would be at the factory cherry-picking the ones that pass their own QC, and the ones that don't end up on Ebay.


Part two of my comment is 'quality' seems to mean a whole different thing to different people. Or some people are just trying to convince themselves that they made the right choice. But I've seen some utter shit on here with people singing the 'quality' song. Not going to name names, this time.

Well put post:happy0180: