then your beef is with Meyle, not Turkey or China or India, or what ever you define as Europe (Turkey is partly in Europe and partly in Asia).

Ascribing quality of parts to country of origin does not help anyone. Blame the buyer, either Meyle or distributor. 

Alistair

On 2013-07-01, at 1:55 PM, Old Volks Home wrote:

> 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(!).
> 
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