Thread: Soo Angry....

Very poor form indeed... obviously the selector mechanism wasn't tested at all during any stage of assembly.

And this after the centre diff rubbish.

This is really the sort of thing that turns people away from a car marque.

I recall Dave Ashcroft saying that the quality of the LT230 has dropped a lot in recent years and that each Defender can vary dramatically in how good/bad their TC is. Leaks, noise etc.

They don't make 'em like they used to.

Hi,
"Tar and plaster the muddy bucket of pitch", said with much vitriol, is an appropriate statement in a case such as this.

cheers

Fitment is major problem in an assembly process.
With our assemblers at Albury, we used to teach them about burrs etc, how to find, fix or repair various problem encountered during assembly. Easy fix, replace faulty part as you go. Not so easy when the line is moving at speed, so rarely done. Most times, the trans would be tagged and sent to the reworker.

The hardest thing to teach though is getting someone to recognise the fault in the first place. And by this I mean "care factor". Most of the people who work on moving assembly lines, which I'm assuming is the case at hand, are young, and unfortunately with that comes a "can't be ****ed" attitude. Monday's and Friday's don't even come into play at this point.

We used to encourage our people to do fitting and machining courses to help with this, it gives them some pride and ownership,,,, something that's even hard to find in some mechanics these days. Even with training, time of course is a priority and so people tend to say "she'll be right" and move on. Every operation has procedures in place to find all faults and give quality the number 1 priority, but mindset and care are really paramount in the assembly process.

JC, with your attitude, I wish I'd had you on my team.

Thanks for posting this JC, I think I now know what is wrong with mine

getting to the point where Im begining to suspect that anyone who wants to work on vehicle manufacturing should be given a box of parts and a shell that resembles a ferret scout car and told "build tune and adjust that till it works right and drives nice."

if you cant get the hell out of my trade or at least have the decency to refer to yourself as "pathetic rank amature butcher"

Stupid phone double post.

So reading between the lines I should not be thinking of buying a new Defender out of the show room next finacial year