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The first study to draw attention to the issue came at the end of the last century. In 1999 Trading Standards launched a study into the counterfeit car parts industry which it said had grown from three million pound in 1994 to just over 300 billion. It was a remarkable rise sparked in part by the surge of car ownership in emerging countries such as India.
This market that has grown and evolved rapidly. Spares manufactured from base metals or inferior materials put drivers at very real risk. Worse still they increasingly come with logos and bear all the outward appearance of the genuine article. They can look so convincing and, combined with the rock bottom price, (often up to half that of the manufacturer's value) they can seem extremely tempting. Even experienced mechanics have been taken in.
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