Topic: Can Japanese car makers be trusted.

[ktm525]

Toyota has a stop sale (only on the recalled 2022-23 so not many) and no prescribed fix so it will be interesting what develops.

This is a good video for some background


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XdaccfMxn4&t=1063s

[jaman]

I think the engine failures is a different story to the blatant and intentional falsifying of safety tests. Engineering and manufacturing defects will happen from time to time, cheating is a company culture issue which may impact “trust”, as the title of this post suggest.

Not sure Japanese car makers deserve any more flak than others, but clearly they are not immune.

[ktm525]

Yeah sorry I branched the original thread off, should have started one on the toyota v6.

[TomDirt]

My friend worked at a GM manufacturing plant. Her job was at a stamp station. The management forced to include as much rejected parts as possible to meet the quota. while the cars with right specs will do fine as we all hear about, but the wrong specs will create issues down the line. I heard the QA being fired if they reported too many wrong parts.

She then shifted to toyota after a while. The company was insistent to report failures asap, i mean asap. They would stop the machine if it would spit wrong specs. correct it and then start it. huge change in work culture too. people stayed longer with company. Were given better benefits.

[ktm525]

You a cousin of Joe Dirt?