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Originally Posted by Mark DiSilvestro
I remember years ago a friend was restoring his '53 MG TD. His new wheel cylinder boots and other rubber parts from Taiwan rotted on his garage-shelf before he was ready to use them!
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Uhm, they copied the part right down to the 1953 expected life span.
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Originally Posted by TroutMD
Even ISO 9001 certifications means nothing in China, as they have routinely been dealt out like candy by corrupt officials.
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ISO 9001 means nothing in terms of assuring someone is making a quality product. The cert states that the manufacturing procedure / testing is documented and adhered to. We could be making lead life preservers and be ISO certified as long as we had standards and adhered to them, . . .most of the time.
In the past I worked for a major high quality electronics manufacturer that was ISO certified. More often that outsiders would expect, we would have a problem with a manufacturing process and made out of spec product. In order to remain ISO compliant, a process engineer would devise a new spec that covered the product and sign off on it. Once the batch went through, we would revert to the old spec. Granted, we had decently tight specs to start with so our deviation wasn't that bad.
There were also quality " Tiers " for outgoing product. China was the highest quality , Arab states next then USA in third.