07-05-2022, 01:38 PM | #1 |
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Car quality is slipping...EV's even more so?
Probably not surprising...and just one perspective. Thoughts?
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07-05-2022, 04:20 PM | #2 |
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I always take these sorts of lists with a grain of salt, I remember reading once that if someone returns a car to the dealer because they can't figure out how to turn the radio on, it gets marked as a 'problem'. I'm not sure what survey that applied to.
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07-05-2022, 04:42 PM | #3 |
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With the perfect storm of material shortages, labor shortages, and supply chain gridlock, vehicle quality has to have gone down, necessarily, across the board. When manufacturers do things like finish 95% of the vehicle and let it sit outside, only to be finished later, or finished at the dealer, quality is going to go down. Materials are substituted with different suppliers, perhaps at a moments notice with little vetting. Factories go with less people on the assembly lines because of labor shortages. All these things will lower quality and most all manufacturers have been affected in one way or another.
EVs are going to suffer because what we have right now are ancient car manufacturers, who have historically built cars with relatively rudimentary control systems, trying to transition to what amounts to tech companies. That will take time, a lot of it. |
07-05-2022, 06:07 PM | #4 |
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Corporate greed. Lesser quality parts, assembly, etc to increase bottom line & more $ for big wigs & shareholders.
Same with food. Prices keep going up, but portions keep getting smaller |
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07-05-2022, 08:57 PM | #5 |
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i wouldn't be surprised if some companies are doing the 'planned obsolescence' thing. why make a car that lasts forever ? that is no good for a business model. apple has already been caught doing it with iphones (latest software updates make the older phones run worse).
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Quality on everything is getting worse imo.
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07-06-2022, 03:10 PM | #8 |
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Truth. Quality seems to drop but prices still rise.
Hell, even quality in service has been dropping. I remember when people were helpful and friendly when going places, now everyone gets upset when they have to step away from their phone to help a customer. Probably has a connection to drops in quality products as well, if the person making said product doesn't care then the product suffers.
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What part of that do you not understand? The throttling is to prevent random shutdowns because battery resistance increases over time and CPU load transients can cause that to happen. Very common on older Android phones. If you just replace your battery full performance comes back.
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