BLACK_PRINCE54915

Hi guys I just got back from California, and while I was there my friends took me to China Town, San Francisco. Did anyone knew that The California Transmission Supply Company, is actually located in China Town. ZF Lifeguard 6/8 Transmission Fluid is made and imported from China, not from Germany. ZF LIFEGUARD is a repackage product from China. As a matter of fact all of The CTSC products and kits are made and imported from China. While this is good in terms of prices, compared to the original stuff from the dealerships, it is also good to know that what we are buying isn’t genuine, and we shouldn't buy thinking it is made in Germany. I like the fact that I can find a gray market product which work, but I wish these businesses would state on their website where the products came from, at least they owed that to us. But then again you buy at your own risk.

twh

Are you saying it that their parts say "Made in Germany" and are actually made in China? That is, they sell counterfeit parts?

What address did you go to in San Fran?

Booyaazaa

CTSC is located by Los Angeles, Camarillo to be exact. Can you elaborate on what you saw that made you think you were at CTSC in SF Chinatown.

KyleB

Dude, freaking everything is made in China today, including the iPad I'm typing this on. Just because something is made in China does not mean it is inferior. Get a grip.

cmyachtie

+1 on that, imagine my surprise last week when I received my central vac unit from Sears which was actually made in Canada....LOL

star69me

I had my tranny service yesterday and I went with the redline fluid. The indy shop says my tranny is good to go and drive around so the adaptations are re learned? What's that mean and he said drive in manual mode a lil.. need help with this??? Anybody???

BLACK_PRINCE54915

If The CTSC is an authorized Dealer of ZF products, then why are they operating out of a Chinese Restaurant Basement in China Town, why is it I can only contact them by email, why does it took them 3 or 4 days to respond to an email? There are a lot of USA/European companies manufacturing products in China, which are genuine. What I am saying is this, China is known to manufacture counterfeit Products and repackage them as genuine, and this is what The CTSC is selling, this is why The CTSC products are so cheap. There is nothing wrong with gray market products if the products function as it should. What I saw in China Town tells me that The CTSC is operating under the radar, as to why you have to know where they’re located to find them.

twh

Anyone out there still have a shipping label off their thectsc.com order?

BLACK_PRINCE54915

KyleB I think you’re missing the point. Yes we all know that the IPad is manufactured in China, but do you know why the IPad remain so expensive even though it was manufactured via cheap labor in China, because the IPad is a genuine product. Gray market products are cheaper because they’re not genuine products, they’re repackage to give the impression as if they are made somewhere else, in this case Germany . The CTSC is selling gray market products from China, it has nothing to do with inferior.

twh

Don't think KyleB is missing the point. A lot of stuff is made in China. Some is good and some is not good. The problem is any company that sells anything that isn't what they advertise it to be. When you have the facts, you can make your own judgement. There are unscrupulous companies out there.

You are alleging that thectsc.com is doing business fraudulently and that you've seen it with your own eyes. That's a strong statement.

Frankly, I doubt your claim.