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Thread ID: 80559	2007-06-27 16:30:00	First: Pet Foods...Now: Tires!	SurferJoe46 (51)	PC World Chat

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563750	2007-06-27 16:30:00	The Chinese must've not paid somebody off or enough again: NEWARK, N.J. — Federal safety officials have ordered a New Jersey tire importer to recall as many as 450,000 tires that it bought from a Chinese manufacturer and sold to U.S. distributors. (www.foxnews.com) Hopefully, they haven't infiltrated your tire dealers (NZ tyre dealerz) there.	SurferJoe46 (51)
563751	2007-06-27 21:15:00	Yep. Someone should have noticed by now the Chinese are very good at making dodgy products. Toothpaste with antifreeze too........	pctek (84)
563752	2007-06-27 22:37:00	Serves em right! Manufacture your items dirt cheap and sell em for mega bucks... Quality versus quantity I say. (Even if it means slimmer margins)	bob_doe_nz (92)
563753	2007-06-28 01:43:00	Serves em right! Manufacture your items dirt cheap and sell em for mega bucks... Quality versus quantity I say. (Even if it means slimmer margins) Don't buy anything leather that is made in china, or any third world country for that matter, as they use toxic chemicals in the processing. These chemicals can then get into your body just buy touching the leather, as it goes through the skin. NZ processing doesn't use they same cheaper pocessing method and chemicals. Still people buy on the sticker price. These cheap chinese imports that are dumped in NZ should be made illegal, as 95% of them end up in our landfills when them fail.	robbyp (2751)
563754	2007-06-28 01:55:00	Thank goodness it will not affect NZ. We only have tyres for vehicles here, you can't buy tires.	godfather (25)
563755	2007-06-28 10:52:00	Dunlop have foisted off the odd lemon here, but that was different I suppose. We expected it of them. ;)	R2x1 (4628)
563756	2007-06-28 12:16:00	sounds like the $90 arc welder we bought from the warehouse. the lever to open the jaws which held the welding rod/stick broke before we even started. then the handgrip fell apart exposing bare wiring with several hundred amps flowing through it. then the pocket rocket (www.trademe.co.nz) i bought. while it is fun to ride i've spent more time riding it than fixing it. first repair was when the air filter fell off, then starter cord broke, and while i was at it i pulled the engine out and found 90% of the bolts holding the carburetor and crank case together weren't even finger tight. the exhaust pipe hand been bent using too large a hydraulic press die and had cracks while my brother's one had ripples/kinks in it. that said for $250 i got what i paid for, and the wheels alone in nz cost more than that. currently it's had less than 4 hours use over 3 rides and has notably lost power since new. luckily i only bought it for the rolling chassis and got the motor purely to compare the difference between electric and petrol drive. then there's the other chinese dirt bike i saw at a bike park with a gearbox that sounded like, well, it wasn't pretty and the bike was less than 6 months old:groan:, and the bike mechanic i was talking to while he was struggling with another chinese machine that refused to hold a steady idle. chinese manufacturers make cheap copies of jap bikes using dodgy materials and no quality control, and sellers even say "honda" engine, despite it being a cheap lifan imitation:yuck: and now i'm worried to see an increasing number of road legal scooters/bikes from china selling here. with quality like that it's downright dangerous	motorbyclist (188)
563757	2007-06-29 01:55:00	NEWS FLASH!! We just got a warning one hour ago from the FDA (US food inspection agency) that Chinese farmed fish are being recalled and hauled off shelves in stores and from prisons, schools and needy institutional larders . Seems they are full of hormones and antibiotics and fecal wastes that are not approved in foods in the US . The US will not allow any food that is farmed (ie:fish and sea foods) to enter until China cleans up it's act . If NZ health advisers don't ban their goods, maybe a personal boycott is a very good idea . Let's see: Toothpaste, tires, farmed fish, smoked oysters (yum!) and ball bearings . Funny thing is that the poisoned toothpaste is still being found all over the place . . like the Salvation Army give-aways and the Red Cross, pre- and public schools and private nurseries, prison populations and social rehab outlets . US/FDA, US/SAE, US/PC, US/DOT = 1 CHINA = 0 Youse guys might want to make that a really BIG personal purchasing boycott!	SurferJoe46 (51)
563758	2007-06-29 02:20:00	NEWS FLASH!! We just got a warning one hour ago from the FDA (US food inspection agency) that Chinese farmed fish are being recalled and hauled off shelves in stores and from prisons, schools and needy institutional larders. Not to mention that it might be fugu	bob_doe_nz (92)
563759	2007-06-29 05:41:00	You get what you pay for Cheap crap has always been cheap crap. Used to made in Hong Kong. Get country of origin labels (COOL) made mandatory. Clothes made in China are one thing, food, vitamins & drugs are another.	Sue (33)
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