Fake Jap/China parts made to look like OEM ???
04-28-2007 | 08:28 AM
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2000 CLK430 Cabriolet
Fake Jap/China parts made to look like OEM ???
I have received this part twice, with diff. part numbers.
The parts are identical, and they don't fit.
The leads are too short.
This lead/length problem seems very strange.
I can't understand why MB or Behr would make a part with leads too short
to fit the original application.
I wonder if these are Jap or China parts with counterfeit Kraut boxes--fakes, with the part and the packaging made to look like the orig. MB part ?
...or has socialist Germany deteriorated so much that it just doesn't give a damn ?
See link:
http://www.panchogun.com/FVWebPhotos...-Part-Prob.jpg
The parts are identical, and they don't fit.
The leads are too short.
This lead/length problem seems very strange.
I can't understand why MB or Behr would make a part with leads too short
to fit the original application.
I wonder if these are Jap or China parts with counterfeit Kraut boxes--fakes, with the part and the packaging made to look like the orig. MB part ?
...or has socialist Germany deteriorated so much that it just doesn't give a damn ?
See link:
http://www.panchogun.com/FVWebPhotos...-Part-Prob.jpg
Last edited by Pancho; 04-28-2007 at 08:31 AM.
