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03-14-2024, 10:00 PM | #1 |
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Had to Hitch a Ride Home Yesterday
Truck just quit on me. Turns out it was the Crankshaft Position Sensor (LS1)
Wanted a GM part so I went to the dealer and bought the $90 Delco. On the package it says “Made in China - Mainland. LOL. Don’t we make anything here anymore Only good part of this is it solved the problem
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03-14-2024, 10:05 PM | #2 |
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Re: Had to Hitch a Ride Home Yesterday
That’s crazy, but true. Almost nothing made here any more.
For work I’m buying hydroelectric turbines and generators, and none of the manufacturers are here.
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03-14-2024, 10:17 PM | #3 |
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Re: Had to Hitch a Ride Home Yesterday
Here’s the package
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03-14-2024, 10:25 PM | #4 |
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Re: Had to Hitch a Ride Home Yesterday
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03-14-2024, 11:02 PM | #5 |
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Re: Had to Hitch a Ride Home Yesterday
Glad you got it taken care of.
Surreal and disturbing the export of our manufacturing especially to the PRC, which relies heavily on coal powered energy.
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03-14-2024, 11:15 PM | #6 |
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Re: Had to Hitch a Ride Home Yesterday
...and there is detectible hacking on our infrastructure. Should never have gone to foreign manufacturers, but that ship has (literally) sailed.
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03-15-2024, 07:52 AM | #7 |
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Re: Had to Hitch a Ride Home Yesterday
At least we got the quality "Mainland" parts vs the "Non Mainland" parts. I know I feel better!
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03-15-2024, 08:33 AM | #8 |
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Re: Had to Hitch a Ride Home Yesterday
Yeah, I bought a dang "Genuine GM" tailgate support cable from the dealer for my '92 years ago. Made of Chinesium!!
I went to Harley for a rear fender that I used to pay around $100 for, not so long ago. A fender I've seen a man buffing out in a video from 1990, at the York, PA plant. In the early 2000s I toured that plant and they had a robot doing that job. Back to inquiring about a new fender at Harley, I was shocked when I was told it would cost $350, and this was 10 years ago. I said I'd have to hold off and the parts guy said, "Don't wait too long because it will take a while to get here. They're made "overseas", which we all know is the way to mask saying "China". So, why are things made in China now? It certainly isn't to bring us cheaper prices. Now we get junk that costs more, with an American company's label, that take jobs away from Americans to fatten the middleman's wallet. That fender is not a Harley fender. Harley made fenders in York, PA and they sold licensing to aftermarket companies who have them made in China, and now Harley sells the same fender with their inflated "brand name" price because only they have the legal right to stick a Harley Davidson label on it...same as GM does
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03-15-2024, 08:46 AM | #9 | |
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03-15-2024, 08:36 PM | #10 |
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Re: Had to Hitch a Ride Home Yesterday
It's about communist China wanting everyone to believe that Taiwan is part of communist China. In their eyes Taiwan is non-mainland China.
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