You can not sack a man that no longer wants to work for you!.
And that is where I am at, so onward we go with some revelations about the car trade.
Having been an engineer in the automotive industry, I have seen it all.
BMW acquired Land Rover some years back, they wanted the technology with regards to a chassis, as they had never made a car with a independent chassis.
When the at the time new l322 model was to be launched (range rover) we had problems, big ones.
First a BMW went rogue on the Autobahn in Germany, killing the driver. The steering column collapsed.
The same column was fitted in the Range Rover. It kept a memory of steering position, mirror and chair position. So once set, it remembered where you liked it.
There were 2 keys, his and hers if you like. The car on the autobahn stopped working, and all systems failed, leading to the fatality. We had made around 2000 pre launch cars, every single one had to have said column replaced, every man woman in the factory was busy trying to change them, for months.
There was though a much bigger problem to come, one BMW refused to deal with!.
We took one car in that was to be sold a few months later. And it needed a panel change, whole right side panel. The welds had failed. This was structural and a critical safety issue.
We took another random 5 cars in to test the welds on them, all failed!.
A automatic welding process (robot) that BMW had installed was not set to the correct current., Thousands of bad vehicles had been made. By now the car had been released to the public.
To recall and fix them all would have meant Land Rover going out of business, so they instead buried their heads, and sold Land Rover to Ford. Ford sold the spare land on that Land Rover owned near Coventry, netting them 2 billion £'s. And when they realized the scale of the problem, they got out quick, and sold Land Rover to Tata in India.
Ford made a huge profit.
Not a single one of them l322 has ever been fixed, anyone driving one is driving a death trap, a very expensive one at that!
Like I said at the start, you can not fire a man that does not want to work for you!.
More to come soon.
Dude - I've only been back looking at Steemit for 48 hours and its full of really interesting stuff!
They managed to keep that Range Rover welding problem quieter than reports of Epstein not actually being dead :)
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lol
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Wow this is getting interesting though not good at all. Did all the l322 models have the welding issue or did they fix that before production finished? If I recall correctly BMW built a version of the Austin 7 called the Dixi as there first car and I think it had an independent chassis though I could have that wrong.
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It was 2 things they were after, engineering wise, all wheel drive and the off road capable chassis. Think x3 or x5.
Around a years worth of L322 were afflicted. Never to be fixed. We caught it late, and nobody wanted to admit blame, it is the norm in the car industry. We made 100 on nights and 90 on days. x that by working days in 1 year or so.
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Yes I see on the chassis, and that's a lot of l322 vehicles being defective.
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I am so glad I own a car from 1996; cost me 500 and I've driven it for 60k km already. It is a Renault Espace II, it almost can't rust.
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Got to love old cars, less to go wrong, easier to fix. And no major outlay.
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I remember reading an article a couple years ago that they used a Land Rover as an example of Mexicans bringing old vehicles over the border and selling them to unwitting Americans after they refurbished the vehicles...I remember one of the focal points had something to do with shotty welds on them...what a coincidence you'd bring this up....maybe the Mexicans never did weld them.
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As it was the whole side of the car, right side, it would be very expensive to fix, all paint would need to come off, then weld, then repaint. I can not see anyone wanting to do that, including Mexicans out to make a quick profit. :-)
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That was the whole point of contention, the Mexicans were just painting over that which was already wrong if we follow along the story you just told. If no one knew in the first place these were bad vehicles then authorities would just assume the Mexicans did the bad welds then try and disguise with a paint job.
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They most probably did not know, the only way to check is with a chisel and hammer, and tap along the seam where the spot welds are, then it comes open easier than a can of peas.
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