chinese locker update

[Bloodyaussie]

I am running ARB lockers front and rear and have a few mates that have run chinese and arb lockers in fairly well modded weekend toys they have had several chinese failures due to "abuse" in fact the very same "abuse" that the ARB lockers copped with no damage. We all abuse our 4x4s to some extent otherwise we would always take the chicken track. I use mine primarily for hunting and at no time do I think it might be nice to be broken down in the back corner of a 100,000+acre property due to some inferior crap letting me down. You might also note that most farmers in the more remote regions drive Toyota not great walls.

You get what you pay for its as simple as that, I am also a boilermaker and have repaired plenty of crap that was bought in china because of the attractive price. Note that most of the Chinese crap was brand new and needed to be repaired/modified before it could even be put into service.

Mate do you really know how much of your GQ/GU is actually made in China.... much more than you would know.

[threedogs]

A fair bit of ARB gear is made in China under licence too,
So are you saying I shouldn't buy ARB gear ? lol

[Cuppa]

I smile at threads like this as I recall almost identical conversations about Japanese motorcycles & cars when they were first starting to compete with the British & American products. Someone earlier said they always go for Japanese bearings (as do I) but I remember hearing owners of Brit vehicles back in the '70s saying they would never put Jap bearings in because they were all made pot metal, & their machine tolerances were no good. These were Triumph motorcycle owners - I probably said it myself back then, ha ha! In more recent years Korean vehicles have been more widely accepted too. I have no doubt that the Japanese, the Poms, the Yanks, & the Koreans have all produced good & bad. No reason the Chinese should be any different. To generalise about products based only on their country of origin is probably ignorant at best. I expect even the Russians have built something decent ...... Haven't they?

[threedogs]

Niva Lada but you'd have to be a collector lol

[Cervantes]

I expect even the Russians have built something decent ...... Haven't they?

Kamaz trucks are brilliant. They'll go places that most Patrols wont.

Try a YouTube search.

[macca]

When I was a kid it was Jap Crap, then the Taiwanese took over.
Korean stuff, no way until I saw a programme on them making cargo or bulk handling ships.
They were made in sections like a loaf of sliced bread, joined together.
The reporter was looking at a flange that had to be joined to the next "slice", he said you would have to be millimetre perfect.
The engineer said they were micron perfect. Absolutely amazing.
Now its Chinas turn

[my third 256]

if it doesent leak oil its not a triumph

[Cuppa]

if it doesent leak oil its not a triumph

Built in anti corrosion system!

[mudski]

I am running ARB lockers front and rear and have a few mates that have run chinese and arb lockers in fairly well modded weekend toys they have had several chinese failures due to "abuse" in fact the very same "abuse" that the ARB lockers copped with no damage. We all abuse our 4x4s to some extent otherwise we would always take the chicken track. I use mine primarily for hunting and at no time do I think it might be nice to be broken down in the back corner of a 100,000+acre property due to some inferior crap letting me down. You might also note that most farmers in the more remote regions drive Toyota not great walls.

You get what you pay for its as simple as that, I am also a boilermaker and have repaired plenty of crap that was bought in china because of the attractive price. Note that most of the Chinese crap was brand new and needed to be repaired/modified before it could even be put into service.

I'm not questioning post but I spent literally 6 months scouring the net trying to find one person who owned a chinese locker and had it failed. I found none. But I did find plenty who wanted to put their unfounded two cents in and write them off. Hey, they might be crap! They might not! I guess I will find out. Its had a fair bit of abuse and so far so good.

[taslucas]

I've said this over and over again:

If you don't have one of these lockers fitted then please don't comment.

This thread is for real first person information on a product not hearsay and speculations.

Im pretty sure that nearly every mechanical part has been copied and refined over and over ever since humans have had steel.

(ps: a mate has a broken arb air locker in his GU right now)