"Bosch rebuild"

[DeWitt Harrison]

In the course of the Ultranator discussion Kneale Brownson
observed:

> At 10:01 PM 02/26/2002 -0800, Orin Eman wrote:
> >Of course, if a Bosch rebuild
> >involves _replacement_ of the collector rings, that's a different
matter..
>
> And probably has something to do with the difference in price between
Avi's
> products and those offered "off the shelf" by a guy who runs a "Bosch
> rebuild" shop????

I have long harbored the suspicion that not all Bosch rebuild units are
actually rebuilt by Bosch but rather by low wage minions in some
dank electric repair shop in an unsavory part of the City of Industry or
similar. Could it be that bootleg, cleaned up junk alternators somehow
wind up in nice new Bosch boxes? At one time, I experienced a rash of
bad "Bosch rebuilds" sourced from a struggling local foreign car parts place
before hitting a winner first try from one of the nationally known Audi
parts sources.

DeWitt Harrison
88 5kcstq