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Re: Automotive Hits and Misses (Backseat Driver at Forbes, Toyota, GM, Ford, Other Automotive News)
I don't think the issue was unfilled screwholes in US cars. It was that the
US car makers, until recently, did not cover up screws whereas Asians always
had a cap on the heads. Never a big issue to me.
"DH" <dh@stargate.com> wrote in message
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> "Art" <begunaNOSPAMPLEASE@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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>> THey note that screws left on your carpet of a new car is a sign of poor
>> quality. Every Toyota I've purchase had a few left over screws on the
>> carpet. When I asked the dealer he would say that if they drop a screw
>> during assembly, they just grab another one. My latest Hondas had screws
>> left over but I tracked them down to various methods supplied by Honda of
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> Extra screws is disturbing but not necessarily a problem. Sure, they
> dropped and grabbed another out of the bin.
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> Unfilled screw holes are much more worrisome.
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>> "DH" <dh@stargate.com> wrote in message
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>>>I found this article - and most of the "Backseat Driver" articles I've
>>>read - interesting...
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>>> [url]http://www.forbes.com/2006/11/27/autos-Detroit-automakers-biz-man-cz_jf_1128flint.html?partner=yahootix[/url]
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