It's not just GM with bad ignition switches!
NEW LINK DETROIT (Reuters) - Chrysler Group LLC said on Tuesday it is recalling 792,300 older-model Jeep SUVs for ignition switch problems, the second recall of its kind for the No. 3 U.S. automaker ...
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Perrysburg Dodgeboy wrote:NashTT wrote:
I believe the supplier of the switches, Delphi, is the same one that GM used.
Yes that is correct, however they my also supply Chrysler. My plant used to built power steering pumps, master cylinders and wheel cylinders for GM from about 1969 through the mid eighties. So it is very possible that Delphi built our switches.
Don
I retired from Delphi (formerly Delco Electronics/GM) after 30 years. Prior to 1998 we made electronics exclusively for GM. After 98 when GM spun off Delphi we gradually started to make components for different companies. By 2006 when they did the bankruptcy Delphi was making components for all the Big Three, Toyota, Subaru, Honda, Harley Davidson, and a few others.
But...since the bankruptcy (which was a sham) very little of this stuff is made in the U.S. From what I can find out, most of the switches GM recalled were made by Delphi in Mexico and Singapore. That's more than likely the case with the Chrysler recalls.
That being said, if anyone thinks any of these automakers or the different parts plants do things substantially different from GM, as far as process control or quality control is concerned, they're kidding themselves. Every one of them, whether here in the U.S., Europe, Asia, South America, wherever...use the ISO standards.
