I am Detroit - Historical video, shows Dusters being built on the line.

-
Detroit has nobody to blame but the incompetent auto workers that never cared about Quality. Unfortunately the Japanese showed us they could build a better car than Detroit and that's the difference.
 
tonysrt said:
Detroit has nobody to blame but the incompetent auto workers that never cared about Quality. Unfortunately the Japanese showed us they could build a better car than Detroit and that's the difference.
Click to expand...
That may have been true at one point in time, but not anymore. We do however have the japanese to thank though for making the american car makers wake up, and improve their quality or die.
 
Another thing to look at is American car makers are making less sedans because the foreign cars have taken over that market. Ram & Jeep are keeping Chrysler afloat. The Challenger is only pocket change. Every Mopar I've bought has been back to the Dealer for problems, 68 Road Runner, 71 340 Duster, 75 Cordoba, 83 Town & country, 05 Ram & 2010 SRT. I am now a Honda owner for ever. Although I still have the Ram & the SRT.
 
tonysrt said:
Detroit has nobody to blame but the incompetent auto workers that never cared about Quality. Unfortunately the Japanese showed us they could build a better car than Detroit and that's the difference.
Click to expand...
No. Workers are made and broken, and good, bad, and great according to the management who drives them. It is the UPPER MANAGEMENT
 
IMO nearly every big company failure is due to poor management not workers. Detroit as a whole failed because this and political corruption.
 
Upper management was not screwing the cars together. My Fathers new 67 Plymouth wagon had a rattle in the rear that turned out to be an empty soda bottle. My 68 Road Runner had a problem with the 4 speed and turned out to be an internal problem and not the syncros.
 
tonysrt said:
Upper management was not screwing the cars together.
Click to expand...

Give it up. "Upper management" IS the people responsible for "what goes out the door." THEY ARE. If the workers are not doing a proper job it is up to management
 
tonysrt said:
Upper management was not screwing the cars together. My Fathers new 67 Plymouth wagon had a rattle in the rear that turned out to be an empty soda bottle. My 68 Road Runner had a problem with the 4 speed and turned out to be an internal problem and not the syncros.
Click to expand...
That's what happens when you get disgruntled workers.
 
And that is why they said beware of a car built on a Monday or Friday.
 
moparmat2000 said:
That may have been true at one point in time, but not anymore. We do however have the japanese to thank though for making the american car makers wake up, and improve their quality or die.
Click to expand...

ironically the Japanese have us to thank for it. Deming (the ISO 9000 guy) help them fix their manufacturing after WW2.
 
tonysrt said:
Another thing to look at is American car makers are making less sedans because the foreign cars have taken over that market. Ram & Jeep are keeping Chrysler afloat. The Challenger is only pocket change. Every Mopar I've bought has been back to the Dealer for problems, 68 Road Runner, 71 340 Duster, 75 Cordoba, 83 Town & country, 05 Ram & 2010 SRT. I am now a Honda owner for ever. Although I still have the Ram & the SRT.
Click to expand...
I am curious what problems you had with the 71 Duster 340 and would love to hear more since you were an original owner. My grandfather bought a 76 Cordoba that he ordered and when it came in it was missing half of the screws on the taillights and the sales person tried to tell him it was no big deal lol. He made them take screws off another car before he would take delivery.
 
My 340 had numerous oil leaks, but the biggest problem was the front end wasn't tightened and after I tightened everything up the dealer aligned the front end. After the few problems were corrected I came to love it. It had buckets, console, A/T, P/S, P/Disc and A/C, Black vinyl top and curious yellow.
My 75 Cordoba the tranny went out after 150 miles, the radiator leaked and all the instrument gauges crapped out and worse was shimmy in front end. I had to get rid of it after 20,000 miles.
I guess upper management was on vacation when those cars were built.
 
That video needed to be MORE about the assembly line at Plymouth and LESS about Detroit!
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
-

Back
Top