Alot of practice making CJs, but that is still WWII (and earlier) technology and the metal that they make them from is "pot metal", at best.
A fellow near me has bought and tinkered with them, and the DNeprs. If one replaces many of the parts of the CJ with parts from a DNepr
or URAL, you might have a semi-reliable vehicle in the end.
It continuously irritates me to see all sorts of big companies moving their production lines to China, and then the customers end up paying for it
with lousy quality - even if the prices come down somewhat. The companies (whether it is human food, pet food, toothpaste, automobiles, etc)
should be held responsible for maintaining the level of quality of the products as they would be expected to do if the production plants were
maintained in the United States, or Europe, etc. We shouldn't be expecting our governments to enforce these quality control standards - the companies
must be held responsible. When they realize that they have to quintuple their safety and quality testing and inspections budgets, those possible cost savings
of moving production to China won't look too good in comparison. And if the companies are held legally responsible for the product and any penalties/fines resulting, then they will be ALOT less eager to have everything moved to China and shipped back across the globe.
I wish BMW luck in this effort, cause I think that they are going to need it. Unless they maintain their own staff on site to supervise procurement, operations and quality control, I think that the quality will suffer. If it does, it won't take long for even hard-core BMW enthusiasts to avoid those
"CMW" bikes like the plague.
