My Project DIY VMC

Nice work there, Eric. Keep it coming.

The state of the quality of replacement parts nowadays is so critical. On your particular case, few years ago you would just spring for the OEM VW/Audi replacement that was widely available and be done with it. Now for most parts we have to fish through a bunch of alternatives with varying prices and funnily enough, most suppliers or vendors don't want to tell you the origin of the part (have you noticed that?). I strongly suspect most come from the usual suspects (Chynnnaaa) but are rebranded to escape scrutiny. The other alternative is to just go for the uber quality (and more expensive) ones manufactured by specialized suppliers such as CSP, Vintage Speed and the like and be done with it. After almost 20 years of ownership of my Speedster I am going through that with the brake master cylinder. The Indian Bietrix (never heard of that brand until I examined it closely) unit it came with from VS finally gave up the ghost and ended up buying a unit supplied by JP Dansk. As always the country of manufacture is undisclosed but the unit at least looks well made and the price from Parts Geek was very decent. I had tried to buy an German FTE unit for twice the money but the order was later cancelled because they ran out of stock.