Detect fake auto spare parts

Fake auto parts are now flooding the market: while all car models are copied in China, in this country supposedly real and very cheap spare parts pose a threat. Because the installation of inferior counterfeits can have dire consequences.

Usually officials of police and customs from personal curiosity about a fair walk. But in the autumn at the Automechanika in Frankfurt am Main, they had an official order. They made fake spare parts hunting. Because there are fake goods not only in the fashion markets in far East or hawkers of leather around the Mediterranean. Long criminals have discovered auto parts as rewarding business and copy almost all components that are traded in the spare part or accessory business, warn experts such as Hans-Georg Marmit of KÜS experts Association. Immense damage, the European umbrella organization of the automotive supplier industry CLEPA in Brussels per year estimated five to ten billion euro caused the original manufacturers by the forgeries. More on the topic: how long do the points in Flensburg?

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