"Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection" (itsalwayssteve)
01/08/2018 at 10:07 • Filed to: None
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"Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection" (itsalwayssteve)
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Interesting fact about auto manufacturers:
Their interiors are sometimes provided by different suppliers under similar quality standards and often different plants have different parts. I see this frequently with Toyota, although Hyundai has done it in the past as well. They’re often different enough that the patterns won’t fit on the seats for a car built in the other plant.
For example, if I’m ordering an interior kit for an 18 Camry, I have to know whether it’s built in Japan or the US. For 07-17 Camry I had to know whether it was built in Kentucky (11th VIN Character U) or Indiana (11th VIN character R). With the Corolla, cars built in Canada (VIN begins with 2) and US (VIN starts with 5) are completely different under the seat skins.
It’s like this with some others, too.
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Herr Quattro - Has a 4-motion
> Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection
01/08/2018 at 10:31 |
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This instantly makes me feel so much better when it comes to ordering parts for my car. Sure, its 13 years old, and it has a billion different options, trims, and mixtures of the two, but at least its not this BS.
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> Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection
01/08/2018 at 11:40 |
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There’s an old story about a Pontiac exec(maybe? Gm of some sort) going to Japan in the seventies or eighties and touring one of the manufacturing plants. When shown the assembly line he asked where they hammer in parts that don’t quite fit right. The Japanese looked at him and asked, more or less, why the hell they accepted parts that don’t fit right. Why is the part supplier still a supplier of they can’t meet the spec?
Just a fun illustration of the difference in manufacturing back in the day.
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> Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection
01/09/2018 at 04:49 |
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the benefits of Holden only having one factory for many years
Opel/Vauxhall are a mess with all the different factories for the Astra