Picking Up 340 Short Block - What to Look For?

Krooser said

Likely to satisfy early dealer orders for the new model year.

Often the dealers had to get hot selling models scheduled for production early in the model year. Better to have them on the lot to sell...people buy with their eyes and those young buyers would buy on the spot if they saw what they wanted.

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They usually hold the first production vehicles for a month until all of the verification testing is done... That way they can fix them at the assembly plant vs having to recall them if any problems are found...

Plus they can fix them better at the assembly plant than the dealer can because the assembly plant workers are more familiar with them than the mechanics in the field... The UAW workers learn them during the pilot builds and become more familiar with them and can do a better quality repair than the mechanics who are seeing them for the first time...

In addition, the design engineer and plant engineer will be there along side of them when they first start repairing them with the new fix to show them how it's supposed to go together and the repairs are done correctly... This will also eliminate the need to write a TSB (Technical Service Bulletin) for the mechanics to fix in the field... It keeps everything cleaner and all in house...