I had an expensive cold air system on my Dodge 3500 Diesel, the supposed 1,000,000 fiter would last about 15,000 miles, cost for new $85, after 3 of these and an expensive prefilter, didn't work, I couldn't pull a local grade to launch my boat. I took off that POS AFE filter and went back to my stock with $12 filters, I didn't notice any change in power except I can now tow up that local grade easily.

Let me be blunt: MADE IN CHINA .... #e!! NO
Made in USA, Canada (Maybe even Mexico), or Europe ...Yes, if the JB Weld does not fix it..

OH, the Aftermarket Radiators from China should be sold in Vending Machines, since they don't last (they are JUNK!), heard a lot of complaints.

If it's not made in china and is all metal I would be interested.

In my experience, "High quality" and "China" do not belong in the same sentence, much less the same product. Think about things you use on a regular basis. Hand tools. We all have a collection, some larger than others. I probably have a ridiculously large collection by some standards.

Which tools have I never had to replace? The ones from the USA. This is something I have found to be without exception: If it is made in the USA, it is BETTER than it needs to be for the job it is designed for. I make a living using my gear and tools in ways that they probably weren't ever intended. Such is the way of the film and theatre industries. If we need something for a specific purpose, and we know it only needs to survive a few uses (think Mythbusters using drill motors for all kinds of small project motors) then China is where its at... B/c something from there will be CHEAP, and cheaply made. It might only make it a couple uses, but at least it was cheap, right?

I have taken hand wrenches and SNAPPED OFF the box part on a stuck nut, with just my bare hands and arms. I'm not a gorilla, these were Chinese wrenches. Solid steel, right? Then why did the casting inside look like they were diluted steel that had just been covered with pretty chrome dip? Of course, that is IF they even fit the nut properly, and didn't round it off (Or round THEMSELVES out) b/c the steel was too soft somehow.

I will HAPPILY pay more for AMERICAN parts and tools, even though the amount of money in my wallet is almost nothing. Why? Because I will only need to buy it ONCE. It is getting VERY hard to find USA-made tools in Home Depot. I'm dealing with a project right now, where I have to use self-drilling screws into thin wall mild steel. The screws are made by Crown Bolt... In Fecking Communist China. Out of about 20 that I put in this afternoon... 8 or so SHEARED OFF in the dang holes. That is about a 40% failure rate, on a fastener DESIGNED to do exactly what I am asking it to do! I'm not asking it to drill carbon steel here - Mild 1018 (I think that is the number) square tube stock steel! Easy to weld, easy to bend and cut... WTF? Oh right - Chinese quality.

Remember the crane collapses in NYC a few months ago? Turns out, the legs for those climbing cranes were made in China, from OUR OWN scrap steel that we sent off to have THEM make it into stuff. They sent back SUB STANDARD components, that somehow they managed to fool the quality tests. Hmm. There was a dock crane (Those monster things that pull the containers off ships and put them onto trucks) here in Savannah that had to be replaced... CHINA STEEL again.

A friend of mine owns a small machine shop here in Savannah. He was telling me about the scrap shipments he knew about (sells all his scrap for the weight) back a couple years ago, when the prices for scrap were like 18 cents a pound for steel. He said that of the raw tonnage that was going TO China, and the refined tonnage returning FROM... The returning was 50-60% of the weight of what went THERE. What are they doing with all that excess? It isn't a small amount, we are talking a LOT of tons here. Obviously the products like cranes that are coming back aren't up to the specs b/c the steel is lower density than it should be... This means we aren't getting what we are paying for.

I'll avoid China products wherever I can, thanks. Our economy would do better if more people thought about this and decided for themselves whether they want to support their own country or someone else's.