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| 7.62mm Crusader |
Robert Bosch got hurt bad locally by this chip issue as they manufacture steering column assemblies for many brands. Senior employees took the hit of being laid off while other areas at Bosch which produce hydrolic steering are still in need of employees. I think Ford trucks are one brand which get the Bosch electronic steering. | |||
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I grew up driving cars with hand crank windows, hand adjusted seats, and hand adjusted mirrors. All items I now regard as electronic gizmos that will fail at some point and be expensive to replace. Note I stated REPLACE, because parts that were once repairable no longer are. Even engines are regarded as disposable by dealers today. Back when I was young if you had a blown head gasket you would remove the cylinder head and replace the gasket. Now the dealers will tell you that you need a new engine. I've stopped counting. | |||
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What does the hybrid set up do then? A 4.4 second 0-60 in a 4,400 pound vehicle is impressive. I thought 5.2 seconds was pretty good for our 4,900 pound Explorer. A stock, standard 2008 Corvette does 4.5 seconds 0-60 with 430hp and 424lb/ft of torque while weighing 1,200 pounds less. Being turbo charged, the BMW will have a much broader, flatter torque curve, but 1,200 pounds is a lot of weight. | |||
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Mostly to smooth the function of the Auto start/stop system. If you are in launch mode, it contributes very little to acceleration because it is basically a starter/alternator driven by the accessory belt. | |||
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Took some searching to get to the bottom of this one: https://www.bmwblog.com/2020/0...d-hybrid-technology/  | |||
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While I have had the exact same feelings you want to know the one window failure I have had over the many years and cars? A CRANK MANUAL ONE.  Take Care, Shoot Safe, Chris | |||
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And just to simplify this, 'all' of these problems/issues point back to one specific group of people who caused them. Wanna take a guess which group that is? Here's a hint: Most of them possess an ego the size of Texas and a frontal brain lobe the size of a shirt button. ----------------------------- Guns are awesome because they shoot solid lead freedom. Every man should have several guns. And several dogs, because a man with a cat is a woman. Kurt Schlichter | |||
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You really believe in our current instant gratification world, the majority of people are going to wait weeks if not months to get a new car? Personally, I think that's all fairy dust. And will likely burn crank bearings in the first 30k miles if history is any indicator.  Which was likely fixed in 5 minutes by the owners with a $8 part. Ah, the good ole days.  ----------------------------- Guns are awesome because they shoot solid lead freedom. Every man should have several guns. And several dogs, because a man with a cat is a woman. Kurt Schlichter | |||
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Can't speak for all tier 1s, but this isn't what I've seen. I'm sure there are some really dumb stories. Component lead times from Asia are usually 90 days minimum. The beginning of the shutdown in US was '2 weeks, then who knows' in Mid-march. That means firm orders for April, May & most, probably all, of June are already out there. Usually can't cancel those, so you plan to reduce orders for July, if possible depending on contract. We ended up down for 6 weeks & that was less than most other OEMs or individual plants. If you know any companies that can handle 6+ weeks of no sales & still purchase components as normal, let me know. They have (had?) cash to waste, I'll take some. They are apparently dumb enough to give it away. An unexpected shutdown of indeterminate length is probably worst case scenario for global just-in-time production. Add in political stupidity & you get 2020/2021/2022. | |||
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| Not as lean, not as mean, Still a Marine  |
Don't you love it when LEAN initiatives turn anorexic? We had this issue at one of my previous jobs. When you idle production lines due to supply issues, but refuse to add suppliers or build a reserve quota, LEAN can cause you to starve. I shall respect you until you open your mouth, from that point on, you must earn it yourself. | |||
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| Thank you Very little  |
The Average EV uses 2000 chips, more than double the number of chips used in a modern ICE vehicle. With demand for EV's is up, and more companies are making them, selling more, so that compounds the chip shortage for ICE vehicles to some extent. The more consumers demand computers that they can drive, the more the problem compounds. https://www.scientificamerican...rce-secretary-says/# | |||
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wow had not idea that many chips were in the average car, I figured a handful maybe depending on options https://chandlersfirearms.com/chesterfield-armament/ | |||
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Your toaster and microwave have handfuls of IC chips. There isn’t hardly anything anymore made that isn’t wifi/network enabled or using some kind of timer and/or and power control. Digital controllers and sensors everywhere… "Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay - and claims a halo for his dishonesty." ~Robert A. Heinlein | |||
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| Staring back from the abyss  |
That's maybe not a bad thing. Not telling anyone how to live their lives or what to spend their own money on, but it seems that too many people just have to have the newest latest greatest when the old one worked just fine. My county has a population of around 12,000. In the past ten years there have been 7000 new vehicle registrations. That's just crazy to me. I drive a ten year old truck and will drive it into the ground. I also have a 54 year old car that runs like a top and a 52 year old motorcycle. I have no need for a $75,000 new vehicle. ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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| Definitely NOT Banned |
Based on where we are, we can probably guess where the other works. And I'd say that I don't think your employer is one of the ones who made particularly bad decisions. Unfortunately, most others literally cancelled orders or reduced forecasts going out quarters from March 2020. In addition, since a lot of our manufacturing capability is US-based and owned by us, we (in the past) have been able to meet massive increases in demand with decent ease. Just not when everybody is asking. All these things contributed heavily to the situation we're all in. | |||
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I put a deposit down last Jul for an allocation for a Porsche 911S from my local dealer. Still no word on when that might actually turn into a production slot, and I don't think the car carrier burning up in the Atlantic will help the situation. I have pretty much given up on that car but will wait and see how long it takes before I decide to cancel it and get the deposit back. Meantime, I ordered a 22 F150 on Mar 25th and I just got word that production is scheduled for the week of May 9th. VIN is assigned but window sticker has not been generated yet. No clue how long it will take to actually get the truck built and delivered. I've also been trying to find an F250 XL 4X4 SuperCab work truck for my brother in Juneau AK. I've called over 20 dealers all over the country and was only able to find one that had one on the lot or inbound that wasn't already sold. It had a bit too much stuff that he didn't want to not enough of the options he needed so he passed on that one. Ford isn't taking orders on any more F250s this model year (at least for now according to my local dealer) so finding one on the lot not previously ordered is seemingly impossible. My other brother in GA who has a FedEx ground business has had his truck broker try to locate one as well with no luck. So I don't things are going to improve any time soon and am biting the bullet on buying a new truck now before it gets worse. Be interesting to see if the dealer will stick to the deal we made on the F150 when it finally comes in. | |||
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“Meantime, I ordered a 22 F150 on Mar 25th and I just got word that production is scheduled for the week of May 9th.” I ordered my F150 Feb.7 and all I’ve got so far is an email confirmation of the order. | |||
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I think the price of the Model 3 Long Range has gone up around $5K -$7K since I took delivery of mine 4 months ago. Percentage wise that's a pretty steep increase. But I'd assume it's tied to this plus demand for the vehicles. Train how you intend to Fight Remember - Training is not sparring. Sparring is not fighting. Fighting is not combat. | |||
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| I Am The Walrus |
I think the lesson we should all learn is: bring those jobs back to America! _____________ | |||
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So my takeaway here is cars in Ford lot = LIES!!!! In some ways that's worse. Me - I'd like to look at that F-150 Ford - OK, but we can't sell it to you. Me - WTF At least in the Toyota lot I don't have false expectations because there's literally nothing to buy... ...that I will support and defend... | |||
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