Zonsen Aero Engines - Rapture Aviation (Adelaide)

[BurnieM]

Chinese companies can produce western quality products if they want to.

I trust western QA regardless of where the product is made.

Zonshen is a Chinese company with very little western reputation.

 

Yes, Chinese car quality is getting much better.

Yes, Zonshen have produced millions of small motorcycle engines.

Talking about cars manufactured in much bigger volumes does not tell you much about the reliability/quality of a small volume specialist engine.

 

What was their testing regime ?

What faults have occurred in production engines ? How did they fix it ?

What proportion of total engines had this fault ? How many hours ran till this fault occurred ?

I do not expect to get answers to any of these questions.

 

So we fall back to my original "warm, fuzzy feeling" requirement;

Do you have 200 or more engines with 500 hours or more running in the wild and what faults/number of faults have occurred ?

(single model, we have 20 of this, 40 of that, 30 of this and 50 of that does not cut it)

 

Edited 14 hours ago by BurnieM

[Moneybox]

Hopefully Rotax don't lower their standards to meet a price challenge. Sometimes a company with a good reputation fails miserably to keep up quality control. 

 

Take Australian company Codan as an example. They produce a range of metal detectors under the Minelab brand. Their old products where they developed a very good reputation were exceptional in build quality, performance and endurance. In recent years they have started producing rubbish. Their machines still perform well but fail more often than not. These products sell at premium prices but usually fail before the operator manages to become familiar with the controls. Most people would use these machines in remote areas operating for days to weeks at a time and their new machines often fail to last those few weeks. The only reason they continue to sell their products is that there is no effective competition. Their warranty service is good but that doesn't help the poor sole who only had three weeks off work and travelled 1000km or more before being let down by a brand new machine from what used to be a reputable company.

 

Competition is good for price control but build quality and endurance are more important especially when you have a long way to fall.

[facthunter]

It's when they "sub" stuff out that  the quality drops. Lowest bidder gets the Contract. Like JEEP_ and Indians in the 20's.  I think everyone does it to some extent. OEM is the listed original product manufacturer. !2 month replacement warrantee might suit a small tyre inflator  that would not inflate one tractor tyre without overheating and dying. Nev