According to the CCTV report, Henan Province has recently cracked the largest domestic wheel fraud case in 2019, which involved counterfeiting 43 well-known global aluminum alloy wheel brands with a total amount of RMB 280 million.
According to reports, in March last year, the police in Luyi, Henan received an alarm. A shoe factory in Guobei Industrial Park is manufacturing fake and inferior wheels. According to investigations by the police, the alloy wheels processed in the factory are structurally damaged wheels. Refurbishment processing. Once such wheels are sold, they will greatly affect driving safety.
According to state regulations, auto parts that are recycled must be marked as "reused auto parts", while finished parts stacked in the factory building are not marked. It is worth noting that at present there is not a well-known foreign wheel manufacturer authorized to carry out processing and refurbishment in China, that is to say, the wheels produced by the factory are counterfeit and shoddy products.
According to investigations by the police, the factory's discarded wheels mainly come from an old wheel hub market in Shandong, disassembled wheel hubs of famous brand accident cars, and discarded wheel hubs imported from abroad. The most prominent feature of these recovered wheel hubs is their low price. After the processing is completed, the factory sells it in online malls for 20% below the market price. At present, the products of the fake dens are inspected in Hangzhou, Wuhan, and Zhengzhou.
Surprisingly, the most expensive counterfeit wheels produced in this den were once sold for several hundred thousand yuan / set.
At present, the main criminal suspects have been arrested by public security organs. AC Motors here warns all modification enthusiasts and car owners that they must not be misled by the price when purchasing car products. The best way to trace the origin of goods is to check the authenticity of the product and ask a third-party verification agency to verify it.