I wonder if it was stitched properly but the part was installed wrong.
Even if a machine stitched it, a person puts it on and has a checklist from the quality engineer that must be ran through each individual piece installed.
Then on top of that, they have special hourly checks. They select a random piece of everything they’ve accomplished (8 a shift if they don’t leave early) to check that it matches the quality standard, there is both a written and visual aid as well as access to a team leader, supervisor (boss) and any type of engineering or maintenance support needed.
Then if that isn’t enough, the supervisor will go around and visually check each of their checklists to note if they wrote down any issues and that if each hourly check was performed based on the employees initialed. At this point, the supervisor signs their name off that they verified the sheet. This absolves the supervisor if something like this is found, which would put the accountability on the employee for falsifying documentation. Although not required, some supervisors [no names mentioned ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ] go around and visually look at the product to make sure the employee did the checks. Trust but verify
Now what they’ll do at the plant for something like this is issue a quality alert. That means the person at the end will sign off that they’re doing an extra check every single vehicle until they’re out of the “alert window” and life goes back to normal.
I’ve seen employees actions cause the scrap of up to 200K of material in a DAY for skipping quality checks (you can fake out gages by putting them inside the master and clicking the “go” button, very rare, but more common to see a couple grand on a weekly basis get tossed for something ridiculous). They are written up with a verbal warning (MAYBE) (there is a step by step program), but no one ever gets fired. I’ve seen someone pull out a weapon on another employee on the assembly line, this person was given two weeks out the door and then ended up getting back pay for the two weeks they were out.
Edit - forgot to make my point, that this quality issue was blatantly ignored (probably angry their bonus was 10 grand instead of 15), UNLESS AGAINST ALL ODDS, the engineer specified that the stitching should be crooked. LoL
And to top this shit all off, this is on their flagship vehicles. What do you think happens to the regular ones?
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The paint stuff is to be expected IMO. But not the horn, locks, etc.
They’ll hammer everything out by the second year run.
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Rare bird
Not that I wouldn’t want this car because I am looking at vettes but mandatory corvette joke incoming -
I guess instead of 1,000,000 C8’s they’ll only have 898,000
Just saw my first C8 in person driving down Delaware.
I LOVE the front end. The rear breaks my heart.
If you could put the C6 rear end on the C8, I’d bust a nut.
Spotted a White convertible the other day. Honestly can’t remember what street I was on. I believe it was in Clarence.
Did you guys see Rob Dahm is throwing a 4 rotor in a wrecked C8?
I honestly thought that was click bait, lol. I’ll have to look.
Dude needs to finish the other 4 rotor fd. The C8 will be cool when finished, I’m sure he’ll sneak his way into a vette meet with it (if covid craze ever ends)
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Agreed, he like has ADD and can’t focus on one car and finish it. At least cleeter works on something, orders parts and fixes another car.
Yikes. Dealership uses wrong lift points…
Wonder what the dealer does about this situation. Is the car totaled? Do you tell them to buy you a new one and they get the old? I’d be so pissed.
That sucks and I’d be pissed the dealership didn’t know how to lift it properly, but the guy seems pretty douchey with all his “I did not want this shared publicly” whining. It’s a red corvette, not US nuclear secrets. They didn’t even show his plate.
My guess is that either he was trying to keep it off to get the best chance of help from the dealer and if he put it on social media, they’d drag it out and cause problems for him.
The other thought is that they were going to try and fix this and keep it under the radar on damages/repairs and the loss of money when you turn around to sell it with an accident.
I believe more of the first situation. Like some people do, jump to social media to blast a company before any resolution is done. Some can drastically damage a company even if they did the right thing and say replaced the car. The initial word could have caused the damage regardless of the end result.
Someone’s getting fired!
Looks like they can sell it for probably more than he paid for it like that:
I spoke with Jake recently (he lives in my city) and the prior comment was correct, he doesn’t want to drag the dealership’s name through the dirt in efforts to get what he is owed.
From what we’ve discussed, it should work out for him and he’s holding off on another C8 waiting for the Z06 to come out so hopefully he is made right.
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