My dad used one of those kits to do a lot of bodywork. I remember it but was too young to hold use it. I was head flashlight holder and go-fer though.
One of the places I worked at had random inventory/QC checks
I think Summit actually tries to provide parts made in USA. That's a rarity these days.
Nope. NEVER said that, and I agree with you.
I said that if you accept an inferior product, you have nobody to blame but yourself.
True, but now more than half the time we have no choice, because of the decisions we and the greedy companies made in the past. I and many other other people like to blame china, because it's more fun that way, but I have seen and handled very high quality Chinese or Taiwanese made products before and they are not cheap, more like very expensive. But when we are buying something from the big common companies that we have been dealing with for decades, buying new car parts today is a dice roll sometimes.
It took like 30 seconds with the rotary tool, fitment is good now. It's not even worth my time to return it and buy another one when I can easily fix it that fast. Best thing I could do is tell Summit the problems and move on.
You have to hate yourself to run a chrome part combined with a seal or gasket.
Couldn't agree more! I got a canopy from Amazon a while back and decided to put it up for the 4th. Opened the carry case, removed the contents, and the instructions are drawings, and not very good ones at that. This country is flooded with Chinese products, makes it hard to find anything made in the USA.
Chinese products are funny like that sometimes, the translation to engrish on the instructions can be hilarious too sometimes.
If the instructions are mangled, you can be pretty sure that the entire operation is offshore, and they don't give a crap about any customers. In my experience, US companies that manufacture overseas also provide all the manuals, either physically, or the PDFs so they can be printed locally to save shipping costs. My old company has engineering and manufacturing facilities across the globe, but we also have a tech writing department with several dozen writers to handle documentation of the products. Those documents get translated in a dozen or more languages. I have to say that they did a pretty good job of writing them and having been in field service and development Quality, I was involved in reviewing hundreds of manuals, tech notes, and internal documentation before publication.
Used to be good friends with a Thai Chef. It beats China food hands down. Yes some of it is questionable as to what's in it. I am a Coonass so we eat anything so not a problem what it is made of.
True, even when you buy parts from the local autopart store instead of online you still find manufactures that don't care about quality or customers, check out this voltage regulator that did not fit at all.
