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From: "King" <landy@pacificcoast.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2000 6:00 PM
Subject: [MV] Sticking Brake Thread another source
> Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 09:06:30 EDT
> >Subject: [MV] Sticking Brake Thread another source
> >
> >
> >Hope this helps, I am sticking with American made products for all
rebuild
> >items, if no label, I'm not buying them.
> >
> >Regards
> >Tom
> >
>
> That's my philosophy with Land Rover stuff as well.Anything made in Canada
> or USA has to meet SAE specs.There is a DIN spec in Germany but these
don't
> apply in the UK or almost anywhere else.
>
Incorrect.
>The UK basically has no consumer
> protection laws like what we have in NA.
>
Incorrect. Start with the Sale of Goods act 1883 - "Goods shall be of
merchantable quality and fit for their purpose".
>There are lots of garbage parts out
> there made in some cave with a rock and piece of wood and sold as
a'genuine
> replacement'.Most of the time these parts are garbage.Also many of the
> aftermarket guys' play word games all in the name of sales and profit.
>
Sure, here, like the US with encouraged free enterprise, people will go for
a fast buck/as cheap as is unrealistically possible depending if you're
buying or selling, of course we have the same Chinese chocolate clone
packaged rip-offs.
Caveat emptor.
Richard
Southampton - England
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