Re: DOA4 came in mail


"Robin" <robinandtami@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "HockeyTownUSA" <magma at comcast dot net> wrote in message
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>> "Drew" <drew@.nospam.drewclayton.com> wrote in message
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>>> Oh, you'd be supprised the number of things that go on a section of a
>>> exhaust system. The pipes have to be bent at a very exact angle.. down
>>> to 1/100th of a mil.
>>>
>>> True, most of the things in electronics when they are bad arn't visible
>>> and thus, they are harder to catch before shipping. I was only pointing
>>> out that no matter what is made, weather it be clothing or a peice of
>>> the space station, humans who make it arn't perfect and machines arn't..
>>> no matter how much they get paid... and when people get all upset over
>>> inperfections like this..I challenge them to work in any type of factory
>>> and see how hard it is to mass produce anything with 0 defects. They
>>> will have a new appreachation and tolorance for it.
>>>
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>>>> Not to put down what you make, but if bad parts are made for exhaust
>>>> systems, you can only imagine all the work that has to go into making a
>>>> complicated piece of electronics work properly.
>>>>
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>> Yeah, now that we're venting, my wife's brand new Jeep Grand Cherokee had
>> the transmission stop shifting under 800 miles. Mistakes are understood,
>> but larger mistakes are containable. I am an automitive engineer that
>> designs parts like the exhaust system you explain. There is no way that
>> there is 1/100th of a mil accuracy in the exhausst, but yes, there are
>> controls to make things go "right".
>>
>> Either way, small defects I can understand, but defects that make a unit
>> not function altogether is completely and utterly unacceptable.
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> It could be worse. My friend's 80 yr old mother has a 2005 Nissan. She
> was on her way to a Dr's appointment one morning, when her factory
> installed seat warmer caused the seat she was sitting in, and her clothing
> to catch fire. She pulled into a gas station where they came running out
> with an extinguisher. Fortunately she was not seriously burned. Three
> weeks later she is still in a rental car that so far Nissan has refused to
> pay for.
>

Well that sucks. Glad she wasn't hurt.

I know stuff breaks, its inevitable. But to me its all in how it is handled
after the fact. Just by taking care of her rental car would relieve that
much more stress from her.


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