Harley parts quality declining?

[rbabos]

It's hard to do good quality chrome in the USA, the EPA has pretty much killed the use of the best chemicals.

A couple years ago on a golf course, ran into a guy that does HD chroming about 1/2 hour from me. Town called Cambridge. He wouldn't get into details of course.  Not sure if the company still does it or HD found a cheaper place to do it. Most likely non EPA regulated countries is where it seems to be heading. Lack of qc usually follows.
Ron

Cambridge, ON? I've done a lot of work there at the Toyota plants.

Me too. Material handling racks, mostly. Cami, toyota, Vutech , and even Saturn in Tennessee . Mind you car companies have a way of turning a nice weld/machine shop into a "Potty mouth" hole once they get in and start the underbidding crap with other suppliers. Good at first, then not so much. Glad I retired from all of that.
Ron

[SixShooter14]

It's hard to do good quality chrome in the USA, the EPA has pretty much killed the use of the best chemicals.

A couple years ago on a golf course, ran into a guy that does HD chroming about 1/2 hour from me. Town called Cambridge. He wouldn't get into details of course.  Not sure if the company still does it or HD found a cheaper place to do it. Most likely non EPA regulated countries is where it seems to be heading. Lack of qc usually follows.
Ron

Cambridge, ON? I've done a lot of work there at the Toyota plants.

Me too. Material handling racks, mostly. Cami, toyota, Vutech , and even Saturn in Tennessee . Mind you car companies have a way of turning a nice weld/machine shop into a "Potty mouth" hole once they get in and start the underbidding crap with other suppliers. Good at first, then not so much. Glad I retired from all of that.
Ron

Yup, I design the conveyor systems for all the major OEMs Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Ford, GM, FCA.....They all want everything better, but done faster and cheaper at the same time.

I was in Cambridge just a few weeks ago. Luckily, it hadn't started snowing yet.

[rbabos]

It's hard to do good quality chrome in the USA, the EPA has pretty much killed the use of the best chemicals.

A couple years ago on a golf course, ran into a guy that does HD chroming about 1/2 hour from me. Town called Cambridge. He wouldn't get into details of course.  Not sure if the company still does it or HD found a cheaper place to do it. Most likely non EPA regulated countries is where it seems to be heading. Lack of qc usually follows.
Ron

Cambridge, ON? I've done a lot of work there at the Toyota plants.

Me too. Material handling racks, mostly. Cami, toyota, Vutech , and even Saturn in Tennessee . Mind you car companies have a way of turning a nice weld/machine shop into a "Potty mouth" hole once they get in and start the underbidding crap with other suppliers. Good at first, then not so much. Glad I retired from all of that.
Ron

Yup, I design the conveyor systems for all the major OEMs Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Ford, GM, FCA.....They all want everything better, but done faster and cheaper at the same time.

I was in Cambridge just a few weeks ago. Luckily, it hadn't started snowing yet.

Got a trace this morning but it's melted already. My riding season is over, so will do all the fluid swaps and prepare for next spring.
Ron

[JW113]

  I guess people like getting screwed. People have to stop giving in.

Bug, all of us'ns on this forum make a conscious decision to buy, ride, and modify Harley-Davidson motorcycles. Therefore, by definition, we absolutely love taking it up the corn hole, while screaming THANK YOU SIR, MAY I HAVE ANOTHER! What else can explain it?  (Rhetorical question)

-JW

[Hossamania]

Deleted, not really on point.