^I have a wife and 4 kids (I win
), yet I still don't buy knock-offs.
I didn't buy knock offs for my 240, I don't buy knock off parts for my Suburban.
I also don't short my family on anything they need. It's called budgeting, and I do it without cutting corners on the parts I want.
I understand the point you are trying to make, but I have also heard it used as an excuse to justify buying cheap parts, too many times. I am not stating that is the direction you were headed, just plotting points for my own argument. There have been more than a handful of occasions when I have sat down with someone to discuss the parts they have bought, and they have ended up spending just as much money buying knock offs various times as it would have to buy the part from a quality manufacturer that they wanted to begin with.
I'm not out to change everyone's mind about fake parts. I'm not THAT naive.
I am hoping that people can at least take SOMETHING out of my rants, if nothing more then to NEVER offer me a knock off part. lol