Thread: $#@#$grrrr

Lol we are talking British assembly of a British design with British materials and you are talking about quality in same breath unbeleiveable.

Unless they dismantle production machines and ship them to the sub continent and then train indian's to build it l don't see any change to current build quality or assembly qauality changing just because owner is now Tata as that what happened with BMW and FORD.

I see it here on site local crew have weird ideas about work ethics and don't see why they need to work and why they can't see down in crib huts for whatever minor complaint they got for up to 7 hours and still expect to b epaid for their time and trouble for attending work.

Japanese build quality is as much a cultural issue as it is a workplace and management ethos thing.

UK workers don't have it, Italian Fiat and Alf Romeo assembly workers dont have it but at least their designers have flair in styling design of cars.

BMW Mercedes Benz and Porsche (Germans do)

That's why in automative terms UK car makers have virtually disappeared from the world

Originally Posted by dullbird

they are querky that's why most people love em!!
actually most people that own them are querky too!!

whoooops that explains me then

I suppose at least with gaps like that the cats would have been able to get out.

Originally Posted by CapeLandy

That gap is meant to be there, has always been there in this position since the structure entered production in 1958. Mind you, it also is supposed to have a thick rubber seal in the space, which usually keeps the water out - in my experience this is not one of the usual places for leaks!

What a lot of people seem to forget is that this body was designed as a canvas top, with the upper section an add on option. By retaining this construction for the station wagon, Rover minimised the additional tooling and maximised the flexibility of vehicles. (in 1958 the rear section sides were the same as the rear section sides for the swb, for example).

John

there is a rubber seal in there but the gap is so big it doesn't touch either side of the rubber and you can see about 2mm gap in places.
Is this perhaps a matter of merely tightening the bolts that hold down the top?

Originally Posted by CraigE

I suppose at least with gaps like that the cats would have been able to get out.

Yeah they meant a tabby not the 4kin Lion king.

I see your problem and you are right, get up 'em. Demand a replacement vehicle.

Originally Posted by CapeLandy

In the words of Mick 'Crocodile' Dundee,

'That's not a knife'.

Sorry, just couldn't help myself.
Simon

Originally Posted by dobbo

Yeah they meant a tabby not the 4kin Lion king.

I see your problem and you are right, get up 'em. Demand a replacement vehicle.

MM I suppose being is South Africa, you would wnat to keep their big cats out, not in. You could get a herd of Wilderbeast through there.