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Subject:Re: It's hard to make your Vanagon better when they're making the parts crappier
From:Old Volks Home
Date:Mon, 1 Jul 2013 13:55:53 -0700

The exclamation is because Turkish made Ball Joints (especially Type 3
FB/SQB) and other Meyle boxed suspension parts from there are poor to
sh*tty quality.

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On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:

> why the exclamation mark after Turkey?
>
> It is the world's 15th largest GDP-PPP economy, has a strong economy, and
> after the global recession had an 8% growth in the economy in 2010.
>
> $1.2 billion in ship building exports in 2011
>
> Made just over a million automobiles in 2012, 16th largest producer in the
> world.
>
>
> alistair
>
> On 2013-07-01, at 1:34 PM, Old Volks Home wrote:
>
> > Some Meyle is made in China, some in Europe, some in India and some in
> > Turkey(!).
>
>