@BxGTI....we're always good!! Hope our paths cross one day in NYC.
Heck I'm cool with @AspektZA this is just a GTI Forum & in the grand scheme of things. BUT, in response to AspektZA...
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No, I didn't have a stroke. (
Am I slurring my writing???)
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Do you possess, at the very least, a GED?
FYI Your Texas Beautician Certificate is not applicable.
....Okay, now that the useless insults are out of the way.....
I would urge you to review this thread. As I've repeated, my participation was strictly in regards to DAP pricing seeming a bit high (
A FACT). I bought from ECS. Indeed, a number of what you're terming OEM suppliers exist---by this I
assume you mean reputable (i.e. Not a seemingly fringe, get it on the cheap, sketchy "too good to be true" offering). Both DAP & ECS source from OEM suppliers you referenced. The ECS "Brand" is indicating "European VW/Audi"---whatever that means. The cost is $849.95
per assembly. What appears to be the identical product is being sold by DAP for $874.22
per assembly. AliExpress's offerings are all literally
50% less &
sold in pairs versus the aforementioned ECS & DAP offerings. To those buying upon AliExpress...caveat emptor (
look it up AspektZA, probably not on a Beautician syllabus...yup, Insult #2, I can't help myself when your logic is totally inferior). The question posed by the OP was "difference". The responses were all correct from what I could discern, and suggested COLOR HUE was the "difference".
As for you're "World View"...re-read what you just wrote, it confirms you'e a blithering imbecile...
you actually just stated that not everything manufactured in China is junk, but the majority of junk in the WORLD is from China. My friend...you just made a blanket accusation and then contradicted your own blanket accusation....that's sufficient enough, at least for me, to conclude that anything you suggest or state---
I've asked you for FACTS repeatadly to support you're fantastically stupid and terrifically BROAD/SWEEPING statements and claims---is utterly useless stupidity.
Why does it matter? In terms of economic size, China is 2nd to the US...then the GDP's fall of a cliff---albeit China is in 2nd place by a mile. Thereafter comes Japan, Germany, UK....Mexico is 15th & one eleventh the size of China and one eighteenth the size of the US.
If, as you suggest, most of the WORLD'S junk is manufactured in China...then the WORLD is basically junk, period. A myriad of economic variables come into play---
ye 'ole guns versus butter model---is probably applicable, but I've no clue about Mexico's military size & state of technology opposed to China. I forget the eco theory, but it is basically the "law of diminishing returns". Our cars are manufactured in Mexico. Mexico is also a huge source for the parts that make up our cars (
Just today, I noted that my off-the factory floor Bridgestones proudly stated "Made In Mexico"). Our collective concern ought to be VW "racing to the bottom" to source what it terms "quality" OEM parts, period. VW isn't going anyplace (
Too big to fail, Too Global to fail), however VW possesses self-inflicted concrete shoes in terms of Global Liability & they keep getting heavier...I think the first Civil claim in Germany was just filed against VW/Is the South Korean sales ban still in effect? (FYI South Korea is 11 in GDP)...what does this mean AspektZA? Yes, you can come back and read the conclusion after you give the Asian Woman who just walked in a pedicure and waxing. You back? It means that VW has a massive problem...a fantastical liability #, yet it is an unknown # as of this writing. The repercussions? It could very well be lowest bidder suppliers, and that ought to be concerning to all of us...especially to first time buyers of the brand & our "upgrade" purchases (i.e. MK7.5)...
AND ALL OF THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH CHINA!!!!*At least until you prove that China = A World of Junk & a China supplier is the first to the bottom for VW.
More succinctly, your world views are horse-shit...you should stick to physically shoveling it instead of suggesting it to this forum...that is, when you close up the Beauty Parlor. No Hard Feelings