check the new M35 replacement windshields country of origin. I believe there are some Chinese ones out there and if I saw what I saw, the quality was quite good. Not saying they won't rust in 3 months, but am saying that it will take vigilance and extra money to avoid such imports in the future. Can windshields really be repaired after they are so rusty?
What's Chinese on my truck? dang it, the air conditioner probably has some parts, maybe some of the dash lamps, gotta watch them headlamps too. The steering tires on the front are Japanese.
The coming situation with truck parts is like the already existing situation with industrial vacuum tubes I use daily, so I will illustrate a point.
The 1000 watt transmitter uses a pair of type "3-500Z" tubes in the moduator that cost $375 each if I use NOS Eimac or RCA brand. These are big-ass tubes, not little dinky guitar amp tubes. The Chinese ones give no trouble, pass my demanding tests, and cost $120 each. They even have graphite anodes, certainly a copy of the honorable old Amperex brand. I cannot afford the USA made ones and I owe no apology to anyone for keeping the 50-year old radio set on the air. Those are the only non-US parts in the transmitter. Anyone is welcome to send me a pair of NOS American made 3-500Z's and I will gladly install them, returning the Chinese ones to the sender for use as target practice, whatever.
If anyone has a suggestion to reverse and fix the trend I'd like to know it.
The only solution I can see is that we manufacture our goods here, the cost of nearly everything manufactured goes up by 2x to 4x. I'll pay it, if everyone else will, for the good of the country. If it means I go without something till I save up for the US version, OK. This idea will never work unles it is a National objective and there are too many un-American people in the regulatory bodies to ever agree to such a thing, such a law, not to mention the general populace.
"A Mazda in every garage and two fortune cookies in every pot" -it's the devil! It's a visitation of recompense for the greed of this nation!