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The Whole Toyota Debacle.......Your Thoughts.
AtomSmasher:
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Silas (son of Silas):
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--- Quote from: Silas (son of Silas) on March 04, 2010, 09:32:50 am ---
--- Quote from: ark_ader on March 04, 2010, 07:55:38 am ---I support American products and I buy Chevy. :applaud:
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Well, I guess you're an American living in America so you get 'proper' Chevy's?
Have you seen the steaming pile of Daewoo crap that gets badged and flogged as Chevy in the UK?
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Well that kinda hits a sore spot mate - while yes I am an American I also reside in the UK. - I also had a Daewoo in the US. Then I found out Daewoo went bankrupt 6 months after I bought it. Also the extended warranty was not covered by Daewoo. So I fully understand that problem. I also buy Chevy especially S10 and I will continue to buy Chevy as it is real American Quality. Not Korean, Japanese or Chinese crappy made cars. Just don't get me started on Honda. While I'm on about cars - the UK make crap cars too. :P
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Oops.. sorry, No offense intended. My comment comes from the fact that Americans get Camaros, Corvettes and the like and we get lumbered with the bloody Matisse.
As far as British cars go... We don't really make cars anymore do we? Jag's are Indian (formerly American), Rollers and Bentleys are German etc etc.
TOK:
--- Quote from: Fordman on March 04, 2010, 02:25:26 pm ---
--- Quote from: TOK on March 04, 2010, 12:32:42 pm ---There is not any car I've ever heard of that can't be put in park while its moving. They have a prawl that keeps the transmission from being damaged. Makes a hell of a racket though. Certainly every car can be put in neutral.
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Most cars made today are software controlled in the valve body keeping the transmission from going into park when at speeds above 3mph. This saves the hardware in the gearbox. Yes, it should have been able to go into neutral but something else was wrong preventing it from going into neutral. I dont know their software, but it should be industry standard that lets it go into neutral. Even though you put it into park at speeds above 3mph, the valve body reads the rpm - speed and then prevents the clutch shifting into park. That software controls the transmission more so than the shifter.
Fordman
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Did not know this, thanks. I agree that Reverse and Park should be read as Neutral by the transmission.
I have one truck with an electronically controlled trans, but jamming it in park while moving is not an experiment I want to try!
Fordman:
Ive been making transmissions and parts for many years and for the last 2-3 years just really learning what it was I was making and how/why they are made that way. I really didnt pay attention to what/why a differential was for or how they worked until someone posted a video here on BYOAC a month or so ago.
As for those that has Ford transmission problems, years ago in the Explorer's and F-150's Ford sold more vehicles than it could make transmissions for, so they outsourced the trans to Getrag (borg-warner) (made in mexico) and ZF (german company but made in USA). Also, Aisin (toyota) is another outsourced trans that Ford has used in the past. We was getting alot of problems with the Getrag's so they just made the internals, Ford actually assembled them in Livinonia, Michigan.
The trans problems were the clutch packs were wearing to quickly from bad clutch disks and bad park prawls/rooster combs. Ford had to inspect them one by one before assembly. BTW every part we get from mexico gets inspected at least 2 times, from china - at least 4 times. Mexico's parts have a 20% defect return as china's is around 80 percent. Some how, some way, they make money by sending us junk.
Ford execs where dragged into Congress to explain the Explorer roll over and tire problems in the 90's. It was all over the news but we wasnt as hyper sensative the way we are today. The tire problem was 100% linked to Firestone tires made with carbon black at a plant in Illinois, USA with scab labor as they were having a labor dispute at the time. Bridgestone was bought out by a jap company with a succesorship clause and the new owners thought they would ignore it and fire everyone. Well, they payed alot of cash for that mistake! Notice how Firestone quietly dropped the name and just use their parent name: Bridgestone?
Fordman
Ginsu Victim:
--- Quote from: AtomSmasher on March 04, 2010, 03:16:57 pm ---http://www.autoblog.com/gallery/dansk-port-teknik-garage-door-ad/full/
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That's great! :lol
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