The Bosch points have arived.
They are made in Turkey, the condensers are made in Germany.
The points look good. They have the stronger leave spring. The plastic is
brown, the lucas one is red.
In Germany we have a part dealer who reproduce a lot of parts. All parts are
made in Turkey. At first sight it is a good idea to remanufacture parts for our
cars but they do it in a dilettantic way. No engineering just copying of the
original without any knowledge of material and things.
Last example - braking of reinforced axleshafts. A racer had in 5 races 3 axles
broken. An other racer broke 2 axles this year. This axles are sold in England
also by some companies. Lots of drivers change back to original axles because
they last longest.
Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: <Guyots3@wmconnect.com>
To: <fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 8:45 AM
Subject: BTW points
> In a message dated 7/13/2005 9:46:04 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> owner-fot-digest@autox.team.net writes:
>
>
> > Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 22:33:40 +0200
> > From: <triumph_marx@freenet.de>
> > Subject: Re: BTW points
> >
> > Leon :
> >
> > Are you shure?
> > I always thought that Lucas belongs to TRW Automotive.
> > TRW bought Lucas in 1999 as far I remember.
> >
> > Regards
> > Chris
>
> I recall that also, but I certainly have an unused remanufactured 'Lucas'
> Alternator without Lucas on the black plastic rear cover that came with a
>gray
> plastic tag attached to it indicating that it is remanufactured by Bosch.
> Purchased in the UK in 2001-early 2002.
>
> I also have a Lucas 6 cylinder cap, without Lucas on it, purchsed here in the
> USA via the Standard Motor Parts company, that came in a box with 'made in
> Germany' on it!
> Purchased in late 2003.
>
> I have an identical cap purchased in the UK in a green Lucas style box.
>
> Who knows, but they all appear to be coming from the same original source?
>
> If they are all crap now, then I suppose it doesn't really make any
> difference where they come from.
>
> I have a pair of Hella rear fog lamps which show 'made in Germany' on them,
> but I have it on good authority that they are really produced in Finland!
>
> Leon
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