General Motors Drops More Cash for Pickup Production

Apparently a huge part of the plant has a roof that's not watertight in some areas so I'm sure that's a big part of the "other tooling" upgrades. Their fullsize pickups are their biggest money making/generating source so it's bizarre the plant and the trucks are so neglected compared to Ford/Ram rivals. This guy working at the plant (sort of hiding his identity) is whistle blower to pickup buyers, so take this video with a grain of salt. youtube.com/watch?v=-p_7OephMOM Just ignore the part about bent frames, water intrusion to cabs, and other defects simply forced down the line, not fixed, plus other corners being cut on Silverado/Sierra pickups. A real shame if true.

WordPress SUCKS especially on mobile devices, so I am going to quote DenverMike here: "DenverMike May 31st, 2019 at 7:41 am Apparently a huge part of the plant has a roof that’s not watertight in some areas so I’m sure that’s a big part of the “other tooling” upgrades. Their fullsize pickups are their biggest money making/generating source so it’s bizarre the plant and the trucks are so neglected compared to Ford/Ram rivals. This guy working at the plant (sort of hiding his identity) is whistle blower to pickup buyers, so take this video with a grain of salt. youtube.com/watch?v=-p_7OephMOM Just ignore the part about bent frames, water intrusion to cabs, and other defects simply forced down the line, not fixed, plus other corners being cut on Silverado/Sierra pickups. A real shame if true." IT IS TRUE. The Fort Wayne assembly plant is literally crumbling in real time, even though it produces some of the most profitable vehicles for Guangzhou-Guadalajara Motors. Yes, those trucks are basically knock-down kits comprised of around 50% Chinese, Mexican, Vietnamese, Thai made parts, but the points that a) buyers of those trucks hang American Flags on them or bumper sticker them up with patriotic jingoism, b) pay nosebleed prices for wretched quality (not the fault of the line workers; they do what upper management says), c) those Chinsesium-Mexicalish Silverados and Sierras HD are slapped together as quickly as possible while the rains pour down onto the factory floor, and d) Guangzhou-Guadalajara Motors nets $12,000 to $18,000 per each of these vehicles, should reinforce the point that Guangzhou-Guadalajara Motors is incapable of change, and is the British-Leyland of the USA (having already been taxpayer bailed out multiple times, and literally taxpayer owned in 2009-2011). This is Guangzhou-Guadalajara Motors DNA. A trillion newly injected stem cells from a reputable company could not alter this manifest destiny of a perpetual rolling dumpster fire. And the results are again speaking for themselves, as Guangzhou-Guadalajara Motors loses. Ore and more truck market share (blah, pay, blah, "GM is focused on profitably," - good luck with all that when the new vehicle market really contracts again, which is starting to happen). A dilapidated assembly facility of knock down foreign parts kits in Fort Wayne, with a partially open sunroof, letting spring showers in, flooding new truck cabs, with workers grinding down improperly fitting sections/metal components, to git'r done! (removing protection from corrosion that had been put in place by zinc baths of the cabs), and interiors being installed in cabs still holding enough rainwater to sink a small dingy, all in a factory resembling what one would expect to see out of 1970s British-Leyland, plastic sheeting/draping hanging all over the place, in the midlands! And I guaran-dam-tee that these are just the beginning of the problems in that facility, and assembly of those "professional grade" Heavy Duty! pickups. BEHIND AN EMMINENCE FRONT IT'S A PUT ON. *One year of Mary Barra's salary + stock compensation could at least fix the roof at Fort Wayne and keep the flood waters from pouring in.