| Re: [GMCnet] Another trip screwed up by another China built electric fuel pump [message #322683 is a reply to message #322676] |
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Matt Colie
Messages: 8547
Registered: March 2007
Location: S.E. Michigan
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Misnomer,
You are partly correct, but only partly at best.
<rant on>
AT one time, I had a lot of involvement with "China Jeep". Jeep was not allowed to have inspectors of other bodies on site with any responsibility for product quality. We (Jeep) frequently got complaints form Pacific Rim places about poor quality. When we asked for test results of quality audits or durability testing, everything came out as close to the middle of a distribution as you could hope. This just can't happen. It is like the voting in Philadelphia where there were Zero votes for any republicans. When I asked for a batch of parts to test, I got a batch of parts that had already been tested before they were shipped. When I got a batch of parts from an dealer over there (the actual location escapes me), the failure rate was unacceptable. The people I tried to communicate with about this suddenly had language difficulty. Boeing, Airbus, Gulfstream, General Electric, and Pratt & Whitney all use parts from China, but I know that either they either have inspectors (non-Chinese company employees in the case of GE at least) or the parts are run though a final inspection before they are used in production. It simply is that nobody in the manufacturing world trusts the Chinese to reliably produce quality products and bargain prices.
So Yes, if your Mr. Gasket pump craps out, you can blame Mr. Gasket. But the very real case is that they may have been given a bill of goods by the supplier. Most of these things are trackable. So, if you register a complaint with your supplier, you may get some relief (not everybody is like Applied) (and will have still missed the race for all the Fking good that goes), but you have also made them and everybody else in your circle aware of the quality issue.
<rant off>
Matt & Mary Colie - Chaumière -'73 Glacier 23 - Members GMCMI, GMCGL, GMCES
Electronically Controlled Quiet Engine Cooling Fan with OE Rear Drum Brakes with Applied Control Arms
SE Michigan - Near DTW - Twixt A2 and Detroit
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