Steve, what is the going price of these BMWs for which a botched subassembly at
wholesale is $60K? Does this involve some kind of penalty fee in addition to
baseline cost or something? Tower must do a heck of a lot of volume to support
all those manufacturers.
Marty
"Steven St.Laurent" wrote:
> It is because of Damiler Quality Control Measures? Not the old Chrysler?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-dakota-truck@buffnet.net
> [mailto:owner-dakota-truck@buffnet.net]On Behalf Of Steve and Leslie
> Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2000 9:11 AM
> To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
> Subject: Re: DML: My Daimler Chrysler Nightmare (I wish I could wake
> up!) - LONG
>
> Ed,
>
> For your info i work at Tower Automotive, we build most of the super
> structures and internal structural parts for Toyota, Ford, DC, BMW.
> To start off, the Toyota specs have gone down in the past 3 years
> from alloying 1 bad weld per part to allowing 15 to 20 percent per
> part, they are saying the welds are good as long as it pulls a
> fraction of metal (a good weld equals 7.8 mil their fraction weld
> equals 0.006 mil). Ford is allowing 2 percent bad welds, we do the
> parts for the Focus, Escort, Taurus, the big monster Excursion (the
> whole rear quarter panel), and 4-Trac. On the BMW, they allow 0 bad
> welds, if they find any we end up buying a full body side of their
> new 4wheel drive ($60,000). For DC we manufacture parts for the full
> size van, some of the cars, and the frames for all Durangos and
> Dakotas and lots of body parts for these. DC's specs are 0 bad welds
> allowed otherwise the manufacture will own the vehicle. So it seems
> maybe Toyota isn't as concerned about their safety standards as what
> you would think they should be. I would rather have the secure
> feeling knowing that my vehicle was put together well and don't have
> to worry about it falling apart.
> - Steve
>
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