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Originally Posted by mike@x-ph.com
Yep i get it.
It might be that when they are manufactured to BMW (or any other big company) they go through a lot more quality checks 
To me it would make the most sense that OE and OEM be 100% identical but i have seen it in couple occasions where OEM was lacking in quality or fitment. |
as far as my understanding of ISO standards (9001, but more importantly for this conversation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/TS_16949)
i mean.. in theory they COULD go above and beyond for the parts to go to BMW, but the standards are pretty high as a baseline, so it's be fractions of a percent more variance you'd think.. and you still get a parts warranty on the non-BMW OEM items as well.
a clearer differentiation for above.. you can be an OEM (like in that delphi example) and not be the OE supplier for BMW, where i'm talking about the OEM who is also the OE supplier.
if you're an OEM that holds 9001, 16949 and whatever other requirements was to put branded items out that were to not meet their defined standards.. like i said, multi billion dollar companies aren't in it to sell a few extra items, they wouldn't want to risk losing their OEM supplier contracts worth tens of millions, hundreds of millions, a pop.
so again, yeah, sure, the ISO standards once met are just the 'minimum', and the items sent out for the contract could be held to a slightly stricter standard but you could rest pretty assured that they're a pretty high minimum.