I dont believe we should patronise the Chinese, buy local when and if we can. They poisoned the world, murdered millions and their violations of human rights must be addressed.

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I do my best not to buy anything made in China.

Would never buy a Chinese made motor vehicle.

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 Agree. Don't forget "pig iron" Bob. 

 

https://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/nightlife/pig-iron-bob/11116038

 

The more we buy off China the more they are able to spend on their Military. Ammo that may come our way.

Seems to be a common opinion now given what the CCP has done to us all. I too will avoid buying Chinese goods where ever I can. Big big mistake to allow all our manufacturing to go to China over the years giving them massive growth, new Chinese millionaires by the bucket load, and domination in world markets.

They can now almost bring any country to it's knees through trade embargoes or just plain ignorance. Take their decision to cut exports of Urea...nearly killed ADblue production, being one of the largest producers of precious metals they again cut exports and successfully further crippled the production worldwide of micro chips....and that on top of the release of a virus which was able to put whole platoons of Defence Forces in quarantine...yep Chinese products are off my list.

Sadly too a visit to the Chinese Superstore...aka Big Green Shed...from what I have experienced has little on offer but cheap Chinese made stuff. Quality is a whole new discussion imo.

The box and, I think, chassis for my Snowy River van was made in China partly because I don't think there is a press in Australia large enough to make the six body panels, however all the fit-out is performed in Melbourne so does that make it Chinese or Australian? I imagine most things manufactured in Australia nowadays would have some Chinese made components.

In any event I cannot fault its quality after three years of living in it and thousands of kilometres driven. Nothing of significance has broken or failed and if it caught fire I'd buy another without hesitation.

The real fault here lies with governments of both parties who have totally failed to encourage industry in this country for the 28 years I have lived here - as most MPs are lawyers or professional politicians and, in general, would not know a screwdriver from a hammer this is not surprising... they have passed lots and lots and lots of laws though so that's nice. 

Mike Harding wrote:

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The box and, I think, chassis for my Snowy River van was made in China partly because I don't think there is a press in Australia large enough to make the six body panels, however all the fit-out is performed in Melbourne so does that make it Chinese or Australian? I imagine most things manufactured in Australia nowadays would have some Chinese made components.

In any event I cannot fault its quality after three years of living in it and thousands of kilometres driven. Nothing of significance has broken or failed and if it caught fire I'd buy another without hesitation.

The real fault here lies with governments of both parties who have totally failed to encourage industry in this country for the 28 years I have lived here - as most MPs are lawyers or professional politicians and, in general, would not know a screwdriver from a hammer this is not surprising... they have passed lots and lots and lots of laws though so that's nice. 

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 Have you actually seen the Melbourne factory?

PIG IRON BOB was mentioned, he sent iron ore to JAPAN they sent it back as bombs an bullets .we are exporting all the raw materials to china to fuel their growth, then after the war the Japanese copied everything we needed ,cheaply, most was jap crap, then the quality was improved now JAPAN is a important trading partner an ally and their products are second to none .
Chinese quality is improving and in some brands of caravans that have been around for a while( they fixed/improved what failed) are as good as some manufactured here that use imported products in their construction . the cost of buying a imported caravan has increased due to cost and shipping so they must survive on quality because the price difference is not that great these days( comparable items) does JAYCO import some of their campers ?

as far as " i would never buy a Chinese motor vehicle" a lot of people(in my life time ) said that about Japanese cars now no cars manufactured in Aust

as far as building thing here we have a high expectation of our own worth . we want to be paid big dollars for our effort even if we do not produce anything .we are not going to go without our big cars or maybe two per house, couple of big tv's annual holidays, mobile phones ect all the thing we take for granted .
i was under the impression that most of the imported vans were assembled here

Mike Harding wrote:

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The box and, I think, chassis for my Snowy River van was made in China partly because I don't think there is a press in Australia large enough to make the six body panels,

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 Caravan Shells | vanglassrv

This company in Queensland make fibreglass sandwich panels up to 2.5m wide amd 11m long.

Cheers,

Peter

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I have one thing to say..Money talks and all the rest walks.

Australians will always pick the cheapest crap they can buy. Australian caravan cost 100K , china 60K, guess what the Aussie punter is going to buy...

mixo

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 X2. Same goes for Chinese made car. Those owners should hold their heads in shame. Exception for vehicles manufactured in

China under licence - just.

Mike Harding wrote:

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The box and, I think, chassis for my Snowy River van was made in China partly because I don't think there is a press in Australia large enough to make the six body panels, however all the fit-out is performed in Melbourne so does that make it Chinese or Australian? I imagine most things manufactured in Australia nowadays would have some Chinese made components.

In any event I cannot fault its quality after three years of living in it and thousands of kilometres driven. Nothing of significance has broken or failed and if it caught fire I'd buy another without hesitation.

The real fault here lies with governments of both parties who have totally failed to encourage industry in this country for the 28 years I have lived here - as most MPs are lawyers or professional politicians and, in general, would not know a screwdriver from a hammer this is not surprising... they have passed lots and lots and lots of laws though so that's nice. 

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We did see the Snowy River at last years Maitland show. The wife and I were impressed with the internal quality and the van overall.

As said by others I would stay clear of anything to do with China regardless but very hard to do that with many items. Considering the embargo's they placed on us

we still sell their cars and vans!!!!