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Oddjob:
It's the fact that DS seems to deceive people.. They put genuine equipment in the description but what they don't say is that it's NOT genuine Honda. So you buy thinking it's genuine only to find that it's not.

McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
TBH Ken I have only noticed three categories of parts on the DS site.

Aftermarket, Pattern, then Genuine Part.
When I have ordered Genuine Parts they have arrived in sealed Honda plastic type envelopes or boxed in Honda Logo boxes.

I assume you have experienced something different Ken as I have not come across the term genuine equipment that I can recall.

Oddjob:
OEM replacement seems to be how they describe them now. He’s changed his terminology, most likely due to the number of complaints he got.

McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
If it was an OEM part that would infer it's an Original Equipment Manufacturer supplying a part as per the original specification   supplied to Honda.

OEM replacement sounds like a pattern part.

When I used to run a Carlton the pads from Vauxhall (AC Delco) used to warp the front vented discs, the pads were around £35 a set. On my third set of discs under warranty I was told by the dealer that the cure was to buy genuine new vehicle specification  pads not the service replacement pads. I was well fed up by then so on my last set of new discs I paid the extra for OEM pads that were a different part number. They were just over £100 for the set but I never had any more issues with warping the discs.

Oddjob:
You'd think that wouldn't you Ted. But just because the same people who made it back in the day are now making the new ones doesn't mean they are made to the same spec. They may use different processes now to produce the same part, or different metals or even different components, usually meaning cheaper components. At the time they'd have supplied their best parts to a giant like Honda, they needed to make sure they kept the contract, now it doesn't matter so much, lets make it cheaper, make more profit and who cares if it's not as good, it was over specced in the first place, seems to be the attitude.

Stuff like seat foam could no longer be able to be produced due to environmental concerns for instance, so even if people like Yamiya use the same manufacturer to make the 750K0 seat the foam may feel and act differently.

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