Wix Fuel filters for the CRD gone Chinese :(

tomasnc · **Posted:** Mon Jul 09, 2012 10:00 pm

I had O'Reilys deliver me some other goodies and to my surprise I open the box to see that this filter is made in China. Global economies at work.

Maybe Baldwin still produces this filter in the USA? Update, I found the Baldwin BF7970 on Graingers on-line cat & it is made in China also.

Is the Mopar filter Chinese too?

BlackLibertyCRD · **Posted:** Tue Jul 10, 2012 12:55 am

yepper to it all, our azzez is owned by China if we like it or not.

kdlewis1975 · **Posted:** Tue Jul 10, 2012 5:36 am

Back when I first got my CRD i bought a quantity of Mopar filters from eBay. As of 5 years ago they were made in Italy. I don't know if that is still the case.

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dirtmover · **Posted:** Tue Jul 10, 2012 8:01 am

They've been MIC for at least 5 years. Also, depending on local legislation "made at home" doesn't necessarily mean much. Final processing and packaging may be sufficient to allow items to be marked as made here.

Rich · **Posted:** Tue Jul 10, 2012 8:10 am

I wonder if the rest of the world used to say... "Everything is made in the USA, they own our asses anyway now"?

It's the capitalistic model my friends, we have nobody to blame but ourselves.

:2cents:

tomasnc · **Posted:** Tue Jul 10, 2012 2:05 pm

I order Fleetguard FL-19781 filters today. Made in France... this maybe silly but I am not very big on putting a Chinese fuel filter on my engine. Probably non-sense but that's how I feel about it :mrgreen:

Thanks,

Tom

jkbkwarner · **Posted:** Tue Jul 10, 2012 3:20 pm

Rich wrote:

I wonder if the rest of the world used to say... "Everything is made in the USA, they own our asses anyway now"?

It's the capitalistic model my friends, we have nobody to blame but ourselves.

:2cents:

"capitalistic model" :juggle:

If we all played by the same rules, I could see it working. But it is outsourced for cost benefit alone - cheap, suppressed labor and suppressed currency.

Rich · **Posted:** Tue Jul 10, 2012 4:05 pm

jkbkwarner wrote:

Rich wrote:

I wonder if the rest of the world used to say... "Everything is made in the USA, they own our asses anyway now"?

It's the capitalistic model my friends, we have nobody to blame but ourselves.

:2cents:

"capitalistic model" :juggle:

If we all played by the same rules, I could see it working. But it is outsourced for cost benefit alone - cheap, suppressed labor and suppressed currency.

Increasing profit, reduced costs, on the backs of the repressed labor... how is that NOT capitalistic?

Wix Fuel filters for the CRD gone Chinese :(

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