Brakes..

[98 softtail]

Not made in the USA...Bummer..

I recently purchased a new brake system for my 00' C5 from a Gm Parts supplier. These are Chevrolet Performance Parts, OEM.

When I unboxed the parts, I saw on the shipping label box for the rotors,

"Made in China" .

The Calipers were made in Australia. Only the brake pads were made in the USA.

This bums me out, with so many manufacturing plants closing, the parts for my american car are "imported".

[Rich Z]

Yeah....... You really can't buy much that is MADE IN U.S.A. any longer, simply because the U.S.A. isn't MAKING much any longer. Not only is the loss of jobs a concern, but the loss of manufacturing skills is also leaving us. Pretty shortly, we will be no longer capable of doing manufacturing because the skills needed to do so will just not be available. Why should someone learn a trade in manufacturing these days? Why should someone learn how to design tooling and machinery? Why bother when China can export the merchandise into the USA where it will sell much cheaper at all the Walmarts than our own manufacturer's can offer?

Which means, of course, that eventually China will own us, lock, stock and barrel.

There was a time when import price controls were in place exactly for this reason, to keep a foreign power from knocking the feet out from under us by underpricing our manufacturing base until it was driven out of business. We became a world manufacturing POWER under those controls. But those controls are gone, and you have to wonder who did that to the U.S.A, and why.... Yeah, the importers are making a killing now selling that cheaper imported stuff, but how long can this go on before there is no one left to buy because buyers need to have jobs in order to earn that money to spend?

[gmjunkie]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ro-RP5mknq4

["Backyard Mechanic"]

Originally Posted by gmjunkie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ro-RP5mknq4

Scary thought

[THOR]

Originally Posted by 98 softtail

Not made in the USA...Bummer..

I recently purchased a new brake system for my 00' C5 from a Gm Parts supplier. These are Chevrolet Performance Parts, OEM.

When I unboxed the parts, I saw on the shipping label box for the rotors,

"Made in China" .

The Calipers were made in Australia. Only the brake pads were made in the USA.

This bums me out, with so many manufacturing plants closing, the parts for my american car are "imported".

Our world dominance and prominence in the market place is in significant decline because we are importing more than we export.