Someone needs to get their game face on

[BigClydeLittleTruck]

Jim Farley Says The Plants Setting Ford’s Quality Standard Aren’t American

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[scott1070]

This shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone that’s been paying attention

 

[Tailender]

Is it really the workers, or bad parts and programming that the assemblers have no control over?

 

[BigClydeLittleTruck]

Is it really the workers, or bad parts and programming that the assemblers have no control over?

If the parts were different, that should be easy to see. Parts going to one place are bad and another are better, then why? That should be something that can be figured out and not be a reason to say one assembly location has higher quality output than another.

 

[Glen Baker LLC]

Ford workers

 

[Cherokee]

On my Second Maverick. Bambi murdered my first one.
So far this ones the same as my first, a real Cream Puff.
Perfection.

 

[Fcnrwy]

On my Second Maverick. Bambi murdered my first one.
So far this ones the same as my first, a real Cream Puff.
Perfection.

I have been "Blessed" with my 2022 XL as well...

Jerry

 

[Blue_Max]

My Maverick is the fourth Ford I've bought new. It is the only one that hasn't required any warranty work. The others were built in Dearborn and St. Thomas, Ontario.

 

[Cherokee]

My Maverick is the fourth Ford I've bought new. It is the only one that hasn't required any warranty work. The others were built in Dearborn and St. Thomas, Ontario.

I think Ford overall is getting better.
On my third purchased new Ford. All were trouble free.
Owned 11

I’ve own several Tacomas and have taken them to extreme high mileage in server duty climates and work loads.
Same with Fords.

I keep data, repair costs and incidences.
Over all my Fords were cheaper to own with less repairs than the Toyotas.
This goes back to 1988.

Before that I was a Mopar junkie.
They were the cheapest to fix.

 

[yldman56]

Is it really the workers, or bad parts and programming that the assemblers have no control over?

It’s a combination of cost savings giving substandard parts, personnel retention, and management meeting production numbers. Where I worked, quantity over quality until it starts affecting the bottom line. Upper management will put in place processes to reduce mistakes but middle management will override those if it affects line speed. Then you have personnel that hire in and quit by lunchtime. Pleasing Wall Street is more important than pleasing customers

Is it really the workers, or bad parts and programming that the assemblers have no control over?

Is it really the workers, or bad parts and programming that the assemblers have no control over?

 

[Maverick2022XL]

Except for the paint flaking off on the edge of the hood my 22XL has been solid. It has had recalls but they've all been for software related issues except for the 12v battery which got me a free replacement and the side airbags which where a NTHSA related issue, nothing to do with them not working or installed incorrectly.

 

[Maverick2022XL]

Is it really the workers, or bad parts and programming that the assemblers have no control over?

If they are outsourcing the programming there is part of your problem.

 

[BigClydeLittleTruck]

Pleasing Wall Street is more important than pleasing customers

Sadly this seems true of most all public companies to one degree or another.

 

[Hootbro]

Is it really the workers, or bad parts and programming that the assemblers have no control over?

If the quality on my 2024 Ford Ranger was any indication, it was the workers. Missing cab body plugs, painted over weld slag on the exterior and rear shock bolts that came loose within a 1K miles points to the lack of worker care to me.

 

[MavStangVa]

I have told this before but will again. I ended my 47 year career in plastics at a former customer who produced parts for a European car manufacturer. These parts were both exterior visible parts and unseen by the driver parts. 1 part was a cabin filter holder. It needed 6 clips installed and a foam sealing gasket. The gasket was installed first. This was all done at the molding machine. The cell consisted of a cooling carousel that was timed to allow the proper cooling to prevent warping of parts and for good adhesion of the seal, then the seal installation station, then the clip installation station, followed by boxing. The sealing station had a air ram on a timer that was to assure proper application but if you tripped the light curtain the ram retracted. Operators figured this out so they would trip it to speed up the step. They also would take the last parts in from the cooling carousel instead of reaching to the right side of the opening and getting the one that made the full rotation. It took 45 minutes to fully rotate this rack but since the opening allowed the insertion of 2 parts and the removal of 2 parts they never activated the carousel just kept using the same 4 slots.
The clip machine had sensors to show the clips were in position for assembly and would not operate if 1 was missing, we thought. But someone figured out if they put 6 broken clips in the positions and cycled the machine it didn't care. An entire shipping container of parts arrived at the vehicle assembly plant with no clips before anyone in our facility noticed. Quality had logs showing spot checks every hour for 4 days of production yet every part shipped was bad. Production had logs showing production time reductions and larger volume of parts produced.
When did the upper management care? When they received over 100k in fines PLUS the loss of payment for the parts and no payment for the replacements. I was so happy to retire. I had planned to work to age 70 but that place convinced me to retire at 65.

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