Thanks, that clarifies. So we are talking about a $60K pre-retail price for a entire bimmer 4wd van. You won't find me
waiting in line for that!
Steve and Leslie wrote:
> --- Marty Galyean <mgalyean@acm.org> wrote:
> > 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
> >
>
> When a part is considered faulty or bad the manufacture of that part
> pays the penalty, and whatever the part is on the whole piece is
> scraped. This applies to all welded parts, any bolt on parts are just
> replaced. For instance, several parts are put together at our shop to
> make a side panel of the BMW, if the parts go on to the assembly line
> and are discovered to be bad or non-conforming then that intire unit
> is removed and scraped. And to my knowledge those panels can not be
> bought but the manufacture of the bad part pays for it.
>
> Not every part of the frame on a vehicle is done at Tower, many
> pieces are put to together on the assembly line to make a whole.
> There are many different manufactures that make parts, that are then
> sent to automobile manufactures.
> - Steve
>
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