back in the 80's a guy i know working at the local Chrysler finally found the source of a a rattle in a car that had been brought in six times before he found a BEER CAN with "HA HA YOU FINALLY FOUND ME" written in sharpie on it...
Posted on 12/07/2012 8:20:16 PM PST by RckyRaCoCo
Two years ago Fox 2 Problem Solver Rob Wolchek got a tip from someone inside Chrysler's Jefferson North Assembly plant about what some workers were doing at the park on their lunch break.
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Good Lord. What a bunch of losers. Dangerous losers.
Fire the arbitrator. (duh)
I remember the video - workers speed outta the plant at lunch time, stop at the beer store and stock up, drive to a parking lot to guzzle beers and toke up on weed - then hot foot it back to the plant [all in 45 minutes] ...
My 2005 Chrysler Town and Country at 100,000 miles is rusting, the rear A/C rotted out, there are many creaks and rattles and the check engine light comes on half a dozen times a year. (for different reasons) The last time I went to a dealer they quoted me $450.00 for plugs and wires.
My previous van ate the tranny at 75,000 miles and my Stratus pissed oil on the driveway at 45k.
My 2002 Civic, with 278,000 miles needed shocks, brakes and an alternator in the last two years.
Tell me why I should buy American again?
I know what you mean; my 2001 Isuzu has been nothing but trouble since I got it. Gas once a week, oil every three month and tires every three years, what a hassle!
It definitely pays to belong to the choomsters union.
back in the 80's a guy i know working at the local Chrysler finally found the source of a a rattle in a car that had been brought in six times before he found a BEER CAN with "HA HA YOU FINALLY FOUND ME" written in sharpie on it...
Are you sure your Civic isn't an American car? Of our family's Hondas, two are 'merkun and one is Canadian. You can't judge a book by its cover, as they say.
I thought last year the Toyota Camry had the highest US part content of any car made in the US.
Believe it or not, it was actually made in England. (Si)
I had 27 calls on it. The third guy to look at it handed me cash for the asking price while a 4th guy was waiting his turn and a 5th was on his way over to look . . . all within the first 30 hours after it hit Craig's List.
All except the Fit were built in America. I'm actually old enough to remember that once upon a time, America produced that kind of quality and we laughed at the Japanese.
“...workers speed outta the plant at lunch time, stop at the beer store and stock up, drive to a parking lot to guzzle beers and toke up on weed - then hot foot it back to the plant [all in 45 minutes] ...”
We had a similar drill: tare out at lunch, hit the local sandwich joint, order a pitcher of beer and a cheese steak each, drink, eat, and tare it back to the machine shop, all in 45 minutes. But we were programmers, programmers were allowed to be crazy. You wouldn’t believe what we did on Friday for lunch.
Something like this happened at the Saint Paul Ford plant. they did finely get rid of the union thugs there.
They closed the plant down 10 years later to do it. but they got it done!
Right to pass around a joint.
Rusting after 7 years? I drive a 15-year-old Taurus without a trace of rust, even where the paint has been scraped away. An how does an A/C rot away? At the very least, you need to get your local government to quit using salt on the highways; it does next to nothing for the snow, and eats through cars. Even still, with the freakish bad luck you describe, I think you need a witch doctor, not a mechanic. Eating a tranny at 75K and pissing oil at 45K is just bizarre. (I’ll presume you know how to drive and maintain a car, but the only time I’ve ever heard of a tranny going that young in the last 30 years was someone who didn’t know how to use a stick shift on a Geo.)
As for the Civic, I can’t tell if you’re praising your Japanese nameplate, or cursing your American-made car. 278,000 miles is pretty good for an alternator., and if you’re really putting 50,000 miles every two years, I can’t be shocked that brakes and shocks need to be replaced; that’s not poor workmanship, it’s inevitable wear and tear.
Rusting after 7 years? I drive a 15-year-old Taurus without a trace of rust, even where the paint has been scraped away. An how does an A/C rot away? At the very least, you need to get your local government to quit using salt on the highways; it does next to nothing for the snow, and eats through cars. Even still, with the freakish bad luck you describe, I think you need a witch doctor, not a mechanic. Eating a tranny at 75K and pissing oil at 45K is just bizarre. (I’ll presume you know how to drive and maintain a car, but the only time I’ve ever heard of a tranny going that young in the last 30 years was someone who didn’t know how to use a stick shift on a Geo.)
As for the Civic, I can’t tell if you’re praising your Japanese nameplate, or cursing your American-made car. 278,000 miles is pretty good for an alternator., and if you’re really putting 50,000 miles every two years, I can’t be shocked that brakes and shocks need to be replaced; that’s not poor workmanship, it’s inevitable wear and tear.
There are three reasons why I will not buy a new vehicle from Ford GM and Chrysler
1) United
2) Auto
3) Workers
I used to work on cars....then I bought a Toyota. Now, I don’t work on cars because I don’t need to.
Iput 297 thousand miles om a 2003 Pontiac Grand Am between Sept 2002 and June 2010. In that time I put a left front hub and rotor, and an alternator on it. Also had about 3 sets of front brakes on it. That @($^%$^ traction control uses brakes. After I unhooked it, brake wear went away.
I recently gave it to my son-in-law who is putting 500 miles a week on it. I told him to get the rear brakes ckecked and the mechanic said it still had 90% shoes on it. After 300,000 miles!! It also uses a half Ouartof oil between changes. That blamed American car (pre-OBOZO of course) just ain’t no good, I guess.
After sitting for a year and a half, he had to put a new alternator on it.
Apparently, the problem with rear A/Cs is legit. (I didn’t even know they had separate rear A/Cs!) They weren’t designed with the expectation that solitary drivers would constantly turn the rear A/C on but much lower than your front A/C.
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