Threxx,

That was all for you, buddy. I knew you'd appreciate it. The only thing I see is your continual marketing effort for Toyota. Give it a rest. Maybe we wouldn't "circle jerk" your posts so much, eh?

What a classy, thoughtful response you had. Cheers.

 

You got . Might as well take yer medicine.

I too thought after your post..."Gee, if it takes them 58 days to catch a defect how many cars in the meantime end up in customers' hands with said defect?" It just doesn't make sense, logically.

 

Threxx,

I respect you, and I think you are a very "well written" member of the board... even if I disagree with some of your positions on certain issues. Nothing wrong with that.

But, whipping out the "GM circle jerk" stuff is really out of place.

Especially when you just posted the "Name one GM car that would sway me over from imports"... put the sarcastic " " smiley on the title, and then go and list a menu of very specific options that you KNOW aren't available on a GM car... even though GM has some fine vehicles and offers some features that many of the imports do not offer... OnStar... Stabilitrak on many models... among other things.

Regardless, you posted something as "fact" that was proven to be unrealistic. Just own up to it. You call out "GM circle jerk" people on their misquotes... is it unfair for you to be corrected as well?

 

No it didnt' slip by. It was one of the randomn test cars and they just wore it out at the factory running it up and down 250,000 times...

 

 

Fine, where did you get that info from? Is it published anywhere, at least?

I very much doubt that the whole production line would stop if a window stopped working after 68,000 times. The more realistic approach would be to do further testing on more vehicles, and if necessary replace the part on the new vehicles and issue a recall on existing vehicles.



Sounds to me like you're not getting enough of a circle jerk and resort to doing it yourself.

 

I've tried searching for it but can't fine it anywhere... it's probably out there somewhere if I knew the word string to search for or even the exact number.

I could have remembered wrong and after seeing the number of days and such y'all are probably right. My guess is that I combined facts. They probably test door slamming and window motors and such 100-250k times but in case of a defect found they don't stop anything and of course don't recall anything unless it's found to be a common problem. They probably meant they stop the assembly line if there is a more obvious issue such as excessive orange peel in the pain (they use computer control cameras to watch for orange peel levels), out of spec fit, etc.