Last week, when I was at Orchard getting stuff for a plumbing project, i took a curious wander in the lawnmower parts aisle. What I noticed was that the filters for Kohler tractor engines were MADE IN INDIA. They used to be made in the US, but the filter looked like it was soild. So i went to Kragen, and took a glance at the euro Fram filters. Most of them where made in Turkey, they looked fine, but the on the diesel filters, they looked quite cheap and felt heavy. The material in the rest was quite different than Fram's cheap material, it felt like harder and more stiff. I also noticed that the filters for newer cars were made in Korea, and they looked like OE, but the workmanship was crap, there was glue dripping on the pleats, the fabric end-seals looked like crap.

It's called " Global Economy ", i.e. price goes up......quality goes down.

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2007 C 230 Sport.

Ther was an article in the New York Times or was it the WashingtonPost, recently within last two weeks? in their business section about the vast auto parts industry in India.