[Guest]

Ford Motor Co. is also recalling 24,000 2004 Ford Taurus, Ford Thunderbird and Mercury Sable cars because an improperly welded power-adjustable seat may not support loads during a crash.

Source: http://www.cars.com/news/stories/072704_st...ory&aff=chitrib

 

[majisto]

This is absolutely insane. Why all the recalls? If the cheap-ass auto-makers would build the cars right the first time, these expensive, and sometimes life-threatening problems would never happen! :angry:

And it's not just Ford either. Japan has something to answer to also. *sigh* The American union auto worker will doom this country's auto production. Already get paid an amazing salary, yet they whine for more, and don't care enough about what they are doing.

 

[n2_space]

Welds are not done by humans from what I have seen, they are done by programmed robots.

Recalls suck, but think of two things: 1) at least they are correcting the problem 2) how many parts are there on a car? The time it takes to test everything is insane, and a lot of parts come from other manufacturers that they have to rely on. Just some food for thought

 

[golovko]

Originally posted by n2_space@Aug 11 2004, 12:17 PM
Recalls suck, but think of two things: 1) at least they are correcting the problem 2) how many parts are there on a car? The time it takes to test everything is insane, and a lot of parts come from other manufacturers that they have to rely on. Just some food for thought

I agree. Once you start taking things apart, you realize how many parts there are on a car...it almost seems insane that they can make them work as well as they do.