The other side of the "holy crap coin" is all the engineering and specs are great on paper, but manufacturing can't seem to build things to the engineering specifications - ie, manufacturing and QA problems.
I'm talking about making every individual part correctly per the drawings and specifications. Assembly is the easy part. Making all the parts to fit together correctly is the hard part and way more open to causing issues than final assembly is.
The part in red could occur, and that would obviously be an assembly problem. Again, if all the engineering is spot on, but the manufacturing processes and QA is lacking then things can go sideways. Production is a big machine made up of many cogs ... just takes one cog to screw up to cause problems.
Yes sir and this is why the early s550s had all sorts of odd issues like fenders that where way off, hood that didn’t match up, stuff that can’t be fix in a closed environment. It has to be run on line with workers
What's funny, is I want to specifically keep the Mustang I have, because the body panel alignment on mine is absolutely stellar. It reminds me of the alignment you would see on a late 90's Honda Accord. Almost perfect. About the only thing with a small gap is one of the headlights.
copper was 6, says the average is 3. Some of my metals were higher and some lower than average. But the description said the wear looked normal for an engine with about 1k miles more than I have. I attribute that to the abuse it's taken. Like I've said, it makes nothing but good noise after 2k and feels like it's running strong. I really don't care, I'm just gonna enjoy it. If it was rattling at 7k that would be a different story, but some low rpm noise, it just doesn't scare me like it does some others. If the motor goes and it's under warranty still it's fords problem. If i've tuned it by then and they wont warranty it then it's my problem and I'll take the responsibility for taking that risk.
Then it follows that bad alignment would the strangest reason for NOT wanting a car.
Makes sense to me... do a trade and play the engine roulette and gamble with everything else, or just keep what he has and hopes for the best. I know that not everyone has the tick, but I really need to see a video of a cold 2018/2019 NOT rattling to be convinced that they all don't do it to some degree.
Honestly, I have not found one that doesn't have some rattle around the 2k mark yet.
They learned from NCR who developed a system named Card Random Access Processor. They quickly changed the word Processor to Memory and sent people to retrieve the manuals with big red CRAP on the covers from their beta customers.
