That's is awesome. It always makes my day when people start taking nonsense because it's what my mechanic says. You mean the guy that can put parts on but don't know what the parts are called
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That was one of my most extreme peeve's when in Auto Service, they would rather listen to the next door Joe who works for a six pack, doesn't know what the actual problem is, claims to know it all about cars. Over listening to somebody who is trained to find, and fix the problem not to mention who knows products in and out, what is snake oil and what isn't. Nothing was more aggravating than hearing ''My Mechanic will fix it." Then why did you come to find out the problem if you have a ''Mechanic'' he's supposed to find out what is wrong and then fix it, not just replace the parts. Reminds me of the woman, who during an Ice Storm watched try to climb an ice covered hill, she was spinning the tires and making smoke fly from them climbing. Comes in the next day, says ''I need air in my tires, I could barely climb the hill yesterday." my response ''Air isn't going to change the traction of your tires, you have to have all season tires." Her response ''Tires are too expensive so all I can buy are the cheap tires." My response ''Then you're going to have issues when ice and snow falls like that since what you bought are not actual all seasons." ''Well tires are just too expensive to buy." On her car, 400 bucks would have gotten her a set of actual descent all seasons she had a Honda with 14 inch wheels. She would buy the cheap in house brand that was only good for Spring, Summer and Fall. Mostly good for Summer.
Motorcraft is one of my favorites as well. Probably a better product than any Purolator puts their own name on. They do build them, just to FOMOCO specs. Their silicon gaskets and check valves are likely the best in the industry.
Dayton is to Firestone what Kelly Springfield is to Goodyear. a test bed for new ideas/procedures/design before putting them out under the parent name. This works both ways. A new cost/corner cutting innovation will be tried on the "guinea pig" as well as the newest performance innovations. So the house brand can very well be considerably better, or considerably worse than the parent product. Just depends on which end of the stick you get stuck with.
Bob
That is entirely true, Bridgestone's second in house product FUZION tires, were supposed to be a low cost/quality tire. Well somebody forgot to emphasize the quality part, so you had a cheap extremely fantastic tire. Took Bridgestone nearly a year to figure out why their low budget tire was so popular. After they found out, they yanked it out of their secondary retail stores, limited availability to their main stores and sold them only to whole sale distributors. Same thing with the LeMans series, which was a rebranded Dayton Tire, but it was a cheap fantastic tire and it was selling out of Firestone Stores like hotcakes. They finally like Dayton had to discontinue it since people were buying those over the main Firestone Product. So now you have the entirely unrelated but owned by Bridgestone ''Primewell'' which is a rebranded Enduro Tire as their in house budget brand that isn't worth what people pay for it.
