Topic: Dodge Hellcats Recalled

[rrocket]

Yikes!

http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2017/08/dodge-hellcats-recalled-catastrophic-oil-line-failure/

[Allen]

not surprising, my view of Chrysler products has always been cheaply made cars with big engines 🙄

[Noto]

Yeah, that seems like a pretty silly oversight in terms of the high output of the engine...sh!t hose lines...woops?

[ArticSteve]

IMO, FCA do a heck of a job with the Jeep and RAM brand, but are running on FUMES so something's got to give and it's quality.  The Challengers have always been shoddy builds.  Not to long and there will be a sizeable piece of real estate for sale in Brampton.

[Great_Big_Abyss]

I mean, if you read the report, this has more to do with the supplier that manufactures the oil line, rather than substandard engineering.  If it was substandard engineering, it would affect all cars of this generation.  However, it's only for cars manufactured between February and May of this year.  Ergo, the parts supplier manufacturing the line used substandard material, for whatever reason, and FCA got caught up in it.  This is similar to the Takata airbag thing. 

[ArticSteve]

Car is the sum of it's parts.   In general, Toyota most reliable mass producer of vehicles.  They also have the greatest quality control over their parts.  Industry fact.  Also a known fact is that FCA now, and before they acquired Chrysler, had the worst parts quality ratings, paid the least for those parts and didn't pay on time.  Hence, their "quality" index has always been at the very bottom and it's shows. 

FCA is a bean counting operation.  Sergio's only task is to get even on "net industrial debt".  If he reaches that target he gets an additional 32 MIL USD severance.  Where does the money come from?  Suppliers would be an obvious place, but are they already fully tapped.