Is your Ram towing as Good as it should?

proxim2020 wrote:
Those who're in the auto industry were speculating on what could've happened yesterday in the comments. The axle units are shipped to final assembly from the supplier as a completed unit and they're all bar-coded. The units are scanned to verify that the right unit gets installed in the truck. They suspect that the supplier mislabeled the axles with the wrong bar codes.

If it's really just a few isolated cases then I don't know why FCA just didn't step up and change out the guys gears to keep him quiet. I had a little chuckle when one article referred to 3.55's as the heavy duty gears for towing.

Ding Ding Ding we have a winner....happens all the time to all the manufacturers.

We shipped out three skids of torque converters labeled as I-4 (four cylinder) but they where V-6 converters. None got built into any vehicles as our plant caught it. But the truck with the three skids had to be turned around and sent back to be re-loaded. Cost the pack off and inspector each a ten day DLO (Disciplinary Lay Off)! Bet They pay a little closer attention to what they are paying out next time.

There are thousands of parts in your vehicle and any one can cause a huge headache if they are not correct.There are a lot of trucks running around with the 8.4 Nav radio instead of the smaller non Nav radio because the vendor put the wrong bar code on them. The workers scan the build sheet than the bar code on the item they are installing, if the reader buys it it gets built into the vehicle. Stop the line and you get a write up, keep stopping the line and you get to go home and never come back!

Last year Toledo Jeep fired over 900 people. If you think working in an assembly plant is easy, Toledo Jeep hires over 50 new people every month. Fill out an on-line app and start next month if you think you can hang with real workers!

Don

OH BTW they were V-6 gas trucks only and it was not very many under 20 I think.