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Originally Posted by deanyel
The ********AZ website actually commits in writing that the parts are the same - that they stock "the exact same parts as the local dealer", and that the parts are "in fact, the very same part, manufactured by the very same company." I suspect that Phil would tell you the same thing. The notion that these huge German OE vendors would stop the production line and retool so they could make inferior parts and then put them in boxes with their good name on them seems to me sort of silly. But that's not to say none of these manufacturers ever make parts for the traditional aftermarket - i.e. without their company name.
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With any manufacturing plant their are a certain number of parts that just do not come up to spec. Its part of the cost of making things every industry has X percentage of goods that fall into this catigory. For example say ATE is running 100k front brake rotors for W210's. MB probably specs that their rotors have X run out, ect. Knowing MB there specs are probably very tight. So what if 95k of these brake rotors meet MB specs but 5k are just off a bit? Those 5k are stuck in the blue ATE box and sold through Worldpac ect.