| 11-24-2018, 04:44 PM | #1 |
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763M Performance Wheels made in Taiwan?
Received my 763M's today. Surprised to see they are made in Taiwan. Can someone else with these confirm the country of origin for your 763's? Did someone Shanghai my package between the BMW dealer and my house?!?
Looks like BMW is making lots of cash off us, they even put both part numbers for frozen gold and matte black on the same wheel to save money. |
| 11-24-2018, 04:53 PM | #2 |
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Correct, made by SAI in Taiwan. One reason I got the BBS FI, made in Germany!
http://superalloyengineering.com/products/wheels/ But SAI produces for BMW, Porsche, Ferrari... so no concern. |
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| 11-24-2018, 05:06 PM | #3 |
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Wait... I thought the whole car is made in Germany...lol
Some HRE wheels are made in Japan... Nothing wrong with that at all, everyone is trying to safe money. And to be honest, BMW cars and parts are already super cheap in the states compare to the ROW. |
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| 11-24-2018, 07:04 PM | #4 | |
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| 11-24-2018, 10:34 PM | #5 | |
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It's funny cause the Alutec wheels I got for my wife's X1 winter wheel setup are made in Germany and those were dirt cheap! |
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Also not fan of simple examples but I have owned four German made BMWs and they have all been the most unreliable cars I have ever owned. Plastic cooling systems, fuel pumps, electronics etc. I bought a German built 2008 GTI that tortured us for 9 years including one engine rebuild and one engine replacement. The replacement engine came from Spain and it was no longer buring a quart of oil every 1000 miles like the German engine. finally in 2017 we replaced that German GTI with with a made in Mexico Mk7. We have owned it 18 months and 17K miles and not had a single issue! At 18 months our German GTI was going in for it's first engine rebuild, not to mention it had already had its German headlights, replaced. It's German steering wheel, its German IPod adapter, its German TPMS sensors and TPMS cpu. We also had to have the German gearbox mechatronic unit replaced. Don't get me started on german plastic cooling systems, water pumps, fuel pumps, sending units, rattles, etc etc etc.........  So I can understand the dissapointment because BMW touts German quality and engineering but let's put some perspective. If I was told that I would be sent put on spaceship and sent to Mars and the spaceship was built by BMW, I would tell them to take hike! Because BMW would use the crappiest, least reliable gear engineered with no redundant systems because they engineer for the optimistic of circumstances. Oh....no...zee Ozygen canister meter will NEVER fail...no need for zee oxygen level dipstick! That iz uzeless. Zee ezcellent German engineering never fails! Ok, deep breath.....deep breath...where were we..... Oh yes, perspective. German quality and durability is sadly a myth but I do share and feel the OP's dissapointment. This past Christmas, my wife wanted some Ugg boots. The prices were ridiculous but I figured New Zealand is expensive and difficult to bring those over. I go to buy her a set and they are all made in China! yet they charge the same insane prices as when they were made in New Zealand or Autstralia.  |
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