GM Heated Washer Fluid Investigation Part Two
Published: June 22nd, 2010
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Just another example of why I am affraid to fly or take speed trains. It's bad enough that my car can suddenly take control of itself, but at least I am on the ground and have a fighting chance! These same engineers or designers or quality control, who ever is at fault, are the same working on airplanes. And it's another reason I am not on the newest AirBus A380 or will be the 787. These things need to get the gremlins out.
Why does the video keep bringing up that the parts are made in China and then say that the manufactures aren't at fault? Design wasn't done in China.
@Steven02 The videos appear somewhat stream of consciousness, so observations are just observations. Were this to be condensed into a report those observations may not have made it in. Given the spate of quality control problem from Chinese companies the last few years, that observation would have seemed significant before the final observations about the corrosion and the water trap theory was made.
When you design here and manufacture a world away the disconnect that results prevents problems from being identified. Engineers designed it, the Chinese dutifully made it according to plans, but testing gets done in your driveway. If manufacturing and design were done in the same building the people with slide rules would have a greater chance of catching faults in the product. Maybe not this problem, but quite a few. This is the price we pay for outsourcing and cost reduction.