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Originally Posted by 68style
You should contract out to manufacturers since you know exactly what’s wrong with every single one of them and exactly what they need to do or should be doing.
How are you not CEO of one of them yet?
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It's funny you should ask... easy to criticize since I'm in the cheap seats now.
Been out of automotive for a while but it gave me a lot of appreciation for what's just about the world's biggest group project.
I've bounced around a bit - did product planning at the bankrupt Japanese OEM, validation work at another, crash safety at a Big 3, and competed in SAE autodrive.
Still under NDA for most of this work & with Continental.
I still remember one folder with like 50 different docs to fix misaligned interior trim on the RX - seems simple but brutal to actually do.
An small international army of materials, manufacturing, quality engineers loses sleep everytime there's a rumor of problems.
See the shit they did to root cause the Tundra failures:
https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/202...4V381-8150.pdf
Then think about the supply chain, facilities, manufacturing engineering to decide to make and ship 100k long blocks from Japan instead of having dealers rebuild them.