Chrysler ethics FACTS just found out today!

[Himark]

Some of you know I am in bodyshop business, well I get a headlight for a 05 Chrysler van FROM MOPAR suppose to be a GENIUNE MOPAR part. I charged the ins. company/customer for a higher priced geniune part.

Tech opens box up and finds a aftermarket Taiwan headlight. I figure somebody duped parts and returned. I called supplier and this is what he said..

"Chrysler cant get the vendor to supply the part so they purchased the aftermarket products and are shipping them out, Notice the part # carry's a V in front of it this indicates a value part" BTW these lights are CRAP, wont adjust usually right out of the box and if they do they wont adjust 6 months later, generally are full of condensation in short time to.


So here is Chrysler selling us parts that we can buy straight from Taiwan if we want but are re-labeling and selling off there reputation. And that is EXACTLY what they are doing is "selling off there rep"

Just thought it should be known. Here are the pics.

 

[Anti-Hero]

****in anti-chysler anyway

 

[Super B]

Unreal. Sign of the times I suppose....

 

[colojer]

Thanks for the heads up will know what look for.

 

[skid]

I am in the auto body business myself and full agree that aftermarket lights are junk, just as you said the headlight adjusters are usually stripped out when new. I suppose the big problem is the vendor was not paid by Chrysler after the bankruptcy so the stopped selling them parts. It sucks for all of us, parts are going to continue to be harder to get for now.

 

[skid]

funny the label says it was packaged in April of 08?

 

[Transporter]

funny the label says it was packaged in April of 08?

Good eye there Grisom.

 

[pcp911]

that sucks, did you have to pay the higher price for the value parts???

 

[Supplicate]

makes me regret buying my truck.....

 

[xf800]

chrysler sucks big butt anyways I own a 07 sebring and its the biggest pile of crap ever plus I work for a chrysler dealership so I have to work on junk-mobiles everyday

 

[skidoorulz]

WOW!!!! I did not know that Chrysler was the only automobile manufacturer in the world that had parts made overseas. Thanks for the heads up. Where does GM get their deisel motors from? Or how about their Paladium for their catalatic convertors. Or how about Ford? I'm sure all their parts come from the US, NOT! Like it or not this is a global economy. I think it sucks as much as the next guy. But I'd almost bet that the vendor that was building the headlights that will no longer do it was not in the US either.At least they printed the label in the USA

 

[MPS]

WOW!!!! I did not know that Chrysler was the only automobile manufacturer in the world that had parts made overseas. Thanks for the heads up. Where does GM get their deisel motors from? Or how about their Paladium for their catalatic convertors. Or how about Ford? I'm sure all their parts come from the US, NOT! Like it or not this is a global economy. I think it sucks as much as the next guy. But I'd almost bet that the vendor that was building the headlights that will no longer do it was not in the US either.At least they printed the label in the USA

That isn't the point! The dealer admitted to using an aftermarket part and called it an OEM part! Yes OEM parts are made all over the world, that wasn't the point here.


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[skidoorulz]

If Chrysler can't get the parts from their old vendor and are now buying them from this new vendor and they are shipping them out in Mopar boxes, wouldn't that make them an OEM part? Manufactureres switch vendors all the time. If I bought a Mopar headlight for my 99 Dodge and it did not come from the manufacturer that made the headlights in 99, would that mean that the new headlight was not an oem part?

 

[MPS]

Some of you know I am in bodyshop business, well I get a headlight for a 05 Chrysler van FROM MOPAR suppose to be a GENIUNE MOPAR part. I charged the ins. company/customer for a higher priced geniune part.

Tech opens box up and finds a aftermarket Taiwan headlight. I figure somebody duped parts and returned. I called supplier and this is what he said..

"Chrysler cant get the vendor to supply the part so they purchased the aftermarket products and are shipping them out, Notice the part # carry's a V in front of it this indicates a value part" BTW these lights are CRAP, wont adjust usually right out of the box and if they do they wont adjust 6 months later, generally are full of condensation in short time to.


So here is Chrysler selling us parts that we can buy straight from Taiwan if we want but are re-labeling and selling off there reputation. And that is EXACTLY what they are doing is "selling off there rep"

Just thought it should be known. Here are the pics.

If Chrysler can't get the parts from their old vendor and are now buying them from this new vendor and they are shipping them out in Mopar boxes, wouldn't that make them an OEM part? Manufactureres switch vendors all the time. If I bought a Mopar headlight for my 99 Dodge and it did not come from the manufacturer that made the headlights in 99, would that mean that the new headlight was not an oem part?

I highlighted the dealer's quote, since it seems you have reading comprehension issues. I read nothing about Chrysler switching vendors, did you? But somehow you got that little idea in your head.


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[skidooer1]

skidoorulz, aftermarket products like that can be bought all over ebay for probably a 10th of the oem price.the quality of the parts is much lower vs. a premium oem part. My good friend works at an autobody shop and sometimes does cheap builders with aftermarket parts and they never fit and always need modified in some way.it would be like going to the skidoo dealer and PAYING for a doo oem part and getting a sno-stuff part.