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Originally Posted by Tannaton
The tooling might well be the same, the materials are where the differences are most likely.
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I'm not trying to be difficult, but do you think that, say Dayco, since they've been mentioned, has different recipes for different aux belts, for instance?
To take an extreme example (but a hugely important one to those who run Volvos fitted with them), is the 4C Monroe front damper for c£200 from Autodoc materially different to buying one with a Volvo badge on it, except that the latter's double the cost, and some?
The answer is no. Volvo use an off-the-shelf electronically controlled damper for their cars, made by Monroe. That knowledge makes a huge Financial difference, come the inevitable day when they fail.
I'm just saying that it's a more sophisticated conversation than simply "Volvo good, Brand X bad".