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Re: iluv and junkyard [chetj]
by rockylee
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Apr 26, 2009 (9:51 pm)
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Replying to: chetj (Apr 26, 2009 9:46 pm)
Don't tell the Consumer Reports readers on this board that because they will call you a liar. Sure is there some areas on a car better made than others sure but some believe the hyperbole that there camcord is superior made over a Big 3 car today. The facts just don't support your CR B.S. anymore!!! 
-Rocky
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Re: Progress? [steve_]
by chetj
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Apr 26, 2009 (9:54 pm)
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Replying to: steve_ (Apr 26, 2009 7:25 pm)
great news for us in auto related bizness...i wonder what hit the workers took, fiat said they wanted pay cuts or no deal....another thing, i feel that the 6 big transmission parts we make for chrysler are every bit as good as ones we make for yota...i worked for awhile in a dept that made water pump seals for honda accords and i know our quality was good...they moved that business to a georgia plant..we also make the same bearing seals that go into GM trucks and saabs, i never knew that till last week
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Re: iluv and junkyard [rockylee]
by chetj
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Apr 26, 2009 (9:59 pm)
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Replying to: rockylee (Apr 26, 2009 9:51 pm)
well i imagine most of them never worked at a auto supplier....we dont want to lose contracts by shipping junk to anyone, plus that we might be responsible for recalls...we make millionsof parts a year for chrysler and toyota and i know the quality is identical...but let the suckers overpay for their japanese cars and trucks...even CR admits domestics have closed the gap..i see a lot of parts every week we have to go thru or redo again before it gets shipped as a component to our molding facility
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Re: iluv and junkyard [rockylee]
by chetj
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Apr 26, 2009 (10:01 pm)
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Replying to: rockylee (Apr 26, 2009 6:55 pm)
aint that the truth
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Re: iluv and junkyard [chetj]
by rockylee
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Apr 26, 2009 (10:05 pm)
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Replying to: chetj (Apr 26, 2009 9:59 pm)
Yeah it's difficult for some who have never worked in the industry to comprehend what we are talking about. I see more Detroit, iron on the road that is 20 or 30 years old than I do Japanese/Korean cars. I'm not saying that the Japanese don't make good cars because they certainly do today but there stuff made in the 70's, 80's wasn't superior no matter how much they want to believe Consumer Imports.
-Rocky
P.S. Steve can you manually delete my empty album for me pal??? I added some pics to my album and tried to move them to the empty one like a fellow poster said and it wouldn't allow me to access it still. 
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Re: iluv and junkyard [rockylee]
by chetj
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Apr 26, 2009 (10:25 pm)
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Replying to: rockylee (Apr 26, 2009 10:05 pm)
consumer imports , good one...it is hard to be a consumer if you dont have a job....my wife dragged me to a restaurant tonite with 4 other couples and i noticed they all drove asian cars JHC...one guy who was 76 and grew up indiana hadnt bought a domestic in 25 years...his subie engine just blew up...another girl who works for same company as me bought a subaru..she had a pontiac vibe which ran well for her before she wrecked it..i dont understand how someone from midwest and a supplier worker would not buy a big 3 product and support our auto industry...if americans cared about where products they bought were made i believe our economy wouldnt be so bad
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Re: iluv and junkyard [rockylee]
by tlong
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Apr 26, 2009 (11:34 pm)
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Replying to: rockylee (Apr 26, 2009 10:05 pm)
Yeah it's difficult for some who have never worked in the industry to comprehend what we are talking about. I see more Detroit, iron on the road that is 20 or 30 years old than I do Japanese/Korean cars.
That's because NOBODY was buying Japanese cars in Michigan 20 years ago unless they had a suicide wish.
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Re: iluv and junkyard [tlong]
by kipk
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Apr 27, 2009 (5:20 am)
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Replying to: tlong (Apr 26, 2009 11:34 pm)
>"That's because NOBODY was buying Japanese cars in Michigan 20 years ago unless they had a suicide wish."
YOU NAILED IT !
A couple of weeks ago a Fox News reporter visited a GM plant. While on camera, Drove a new vehicle and commented on how most every car in the employee parking lot was a GM. Therefore: "They must be proud of the cars they build."
Probably doesn't have anything to do with the huge employee discounts, and fear that anything foreign might "accidently" be damaged, along with the driver.
Wonder how many of those cars were old "Beaters" , used for strictly work commutes?
Kip
Seems the day of reckoning for Chrysler UAW folks is at hand. (Do or have it done to you)
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