German cars are considered the black belt of automobile industry in terms of engineering, design, features and options. They, after all, are the ones who invented the modern car. Lets not forget to mention they also produce cars with span life of 3 years like rushing every new feature into production model killed their reputation for reliability. Japanese are beneath Germern and American cars, the only thing going for them is reliability and availability of cheap spare parts.
Many American cars also use the same parts. Similar platform and only the body is different. Sometimes same engines can be used for different trucks/suvs. Smart way of making car parts cheap. Interchangeability is how they did it.
I was actually looking for a "differential assembly", a case with the gears and all in, for my SUV and saw on Ebay one up for sale, then they listed other cars that use the same parts. The list was a page long, I was surprised lol.
The dealer wanted $4000, used is $1000, so I went shopping on Ebay hahahahaha. See if I could do it on the cheap myself with some guy who works with me who has a huge arsenal of car tools and works on his cars.
It turns out though that we need to lift the car high up to work underneath it, no lift capable of that is at our disposal, so it looks like I will be riding the train instead of dealing with the noisy chewed up gears in the differential. I busted the beast since it has high mileage.
Anyways, sorry about the rambling.
I am out.