Older parts are way better then the newer stuff made today. Things are made to RECYCLE now a days, along with more JUNK they put in to make it cheaper to make. My 74 Dodge had the Original motor mounts til about 5 years ago when they were too far dry rot to keep in there. I bought a pair of motor mounts from Oriely due to you can no longer get them from Chrysler. The local dealership told me if they had it in their shop that is where they would had gone to get the mounts (as they pointed out their lot plow truck that was a 86 Power Wagon). The only higher quality ones would be from Energy Suspension.

My point in posting on where the OEM parts where made is that the ones that you buy from Auto Part stores some are made in the same places as the OEM dealership ones they just doesn't have the Dealership package. Heck even some of the gaskets I get from the Dealership are from Fel-pro (same thing you buy from the auto parts store). Lots of MFG's are out sourcing their parts to make it cheaper for them so they can make better $$$ off of what they sell. Then you have Napa who gets the parts from the same places, but has their company name tagged onto it to sell it for a markup cause it says Napa (kind of like circuit boss and painless same company same product just not same markups)

So the same so called $8 JUNK ends up being the same $45 OEM dealership part, its just that the $8 part doesn't have all the markups attached to it.

 

OK go ahead and believe what you want -- I'd rather than talk about this anymore.

 

Let's just say, maximum profit rules the day.

We might get lucky and get old parts, manufactured in this country with good materials worth paying for, or We might get parts made by slave wages with the cheapest materials that pass a visual inspection.

We can no longer know.

All the formerly good branded parts must be viewed with tremendous amounts of suspicion. And who ever trusted the dealer?

Everything now is about maximum profit. That guy at the top... he will cut every corner possible, so he can buy another useless fashionable bauble or shiny trinket for his trophy wife and/or mistress who has been so conditioned to entitlement that nothing will be good enough for her anyway.

She read Cinderella a million times and now believes she is a Royal Effing Princess.

And where does this leave us?

Fighting over motor mounts.

I blame the feminists, and the knuckle dragging fools who try and please them.

All parts these days suck.
They are designed to, but boy oh boy are they marketed well.

 

Lol !

 

Bravo - Bravo1

 

Well I for one will not be clapping my hands over what seems to be a pretty warped view of Capitalism. Global comments that all parts suck and every CEO cuts corners at the expense of quality don't cut much ice with me.

This sounds like a bunch of Liberal claptrap. Is this supposed to be humorous and I am just missing the joke somehow? I've always considered that I have a pretty good sense of humor but I don't really find this to be all that funny.

Gotta be honest.

 

Well, the first directive of management is to handle costs.
Second directive of management is to stay profitable. This is the main responsibility of all CEOs. It is their job to cut costs for the sake of profitability.
If you are not profitable, you lose your management position.

The above isn't liberal drivel, it is reality. Most all C-level executives, unless they work for a non-profit, all subscribe to this dogma.

The global supply chain is a reality now. Parts for cars are becomming more and more interchangable and are being produced overseas in sweatshops. There is no debating this. Sweatshops have been show never to product a quality product. At best they are mediocre.

Workmanship, craftmanship, ownership and quality have been superceded by globalism, lack of respect, and manufactures of all trades. It shows in most all products now.

Hope this helps

What is scarry is state capitalism is the path were are on today. Many liberal feel the Chinese model is the one to follow...

 

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I beg to differ. I advised him that you get what you pay for. I advised him that the $30.00 motor mounts he would get over-the-counter from The Dodge Boys, aka Mopar, would be better quality than the $8.00 BS "Made In India" mounts from the big chain stores. I advised him against installing the BS mounts.

All this from personal experience -- the vulcanized rubber completely separated from the metal on a set of these Indian motor mounts I bought from Advance Auto and installed back in 2005. Happened about 18 months after installation, and well after the warranty expired. Both sides -- one completely torn and the other about 80% gone when I got in there to check.

Not opinion but fact.

The opinions you refer to were from others who wanted to talk about Israeli fuel filters. And their brother's girlfriend's boss who once worked for an auto parts store who knows everything there is to know on Planet Earth about auto parts. And views on how corporate greed is destroying the replacement parts business.

With all due respect I believe the correct answer was supplied by me in the very first post after the question from sparkzz.