DaveyLC
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I got to feel sorry for my mate right now.. A few years ago he went a bit crazy and spent a few grand on a set of 20" Chip Foose chrome rims (he wanted some "quality" wheels for his new M3) which were then imported from the states and took months to arive.
After a few winters they are really pitted and when he tried to change back to his factory wheels they were well corroded to the hub and wouldnt budge so he took the car and the standard wheels down to my mates tyre bay to have them swapped over.
I just had a text from my mate telling me they have Made In China stamped on the back and after a quick google of "Chip Foose China" it appears they are all made in china! My poor mate is sick as a pig; he paid thousands for some old chinese pieces of lead which he put on what was a £45k motor.
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John
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That's what he gets for buying Chip Foose wheel.s
Look ok on overhaulin but not a UK M3.
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Steve
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a brief google image search shows not one chip foose wheel that actually looks any good
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DaveyLC
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Its the power of MTV.. He used to watch the Hotrod building shows and has some strange urge to buy them.
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Jimbothebarbarian
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This is the world of trade all over these days. I bought a cheap as funk Egay ting tong turbo for about a hundred quid delivered. My mate laughed his cock off and said it wouldn't last five minutes. Which of course I know but for my purposes that didn't matter.
He then went out and bought the exact same turbo from a shiney USA tuning site for over three times as much and waited weeks for it to land and they were absolutely identical. Oh how I laughed at his stupidity. I'd told him it would be the same but no "this ones a proper American one you fat cunt"
 
I'd say just about 75% to 95% of everything made is from the far east TBH.
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DaveyLC
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To be fair I've got a Wingchong Factory 7 turbo in my car and its lasted 2 years so far 
http://www.corsasport.co.uk/board/viewthread.php?tid=546863&page=1
[Edited on 17-04-2012 by DaveyLC]
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Jambo
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iPhones are made in China, so are a lot of things. Its not like it was in the 80's
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Ian
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Have you ever tried to call to someone who uses one?
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Jimbothebarbarian
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quote:
Originally posted by DaveyLC
To be fair I've got a Wingchong Factory 7 turbo in my car and its lasted 2 years so far
http://www.corsasport.co.uk/board/viewthread.php?tid=546863&page=1
[Edited on 17-04-2012 by DaveyLC]
Nice update
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Jambo
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quote:
Originally posted by Ian
Have you ever tried to call to someone who uses one?
Everyday without any issues, outside of the internet they work
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ed
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China has some of the best manufacturing facilities in the world  A lot of the best stuff is designed in the west and made in the east, though the east would like you to think that they now have the capability to engineer and design stuff themselves now. We'll see...
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_Allan_
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I bet they make great word clocks too 
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Jambo
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Just looked on Google, I really dislike that Chip Foose bloke. Far too much bumming him for being able to draw lovely cars with shit wheels.
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gazza808
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He got ying yang made in china wheels because he bought the production line wheels, not the custom ones you can get.
Some chinese products are good, but a lot of them they just don't have the knowledge/know how,
Take grinding machines, the ones I built, they can build and sell for about a quarter of the money, no one really buys them, because after 5 years they are knackered, I've pulled out british grinders from factories that were installed just after the war, in better condition.
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Marc
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20" on an M3
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Nath
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Koni had a cheap set of 20" chromes going a few years back.
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Sunz
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I dislike Chinese products as much of it is almost slave labour.
Only good thing personally is Chinese food !
Horrible wheels they do though, all they do is paint a decent car in bright colours and put some huge rims on it and say it's their design, as ray fakadakis would say, AMAZING.
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