Indian-made closed-centre A7 wheel

[Tony Griffiths]

There's nothing inherently wrong with goods made in India. Those who think so may be shocked to know how much of a typical modern car sold in the UK is sourced from India, China, Brazil, Indonesia and anywhere else labour rates are cheap.

The manufacture of these parts is subject to strict quality control by the car makers and the use of state-of-the-art CNC machine tools - after all, they would be liable if a steering arm snapped or a gearbox broke up and locked the wheels. What we are talking about here is something entirely different - backstreet engineering shops scraping a living. It's impossible to compare the two - after all, we have the same bodgers here as well.