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G. David Felt

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  1. G. David Felt
    Europe is going to be the next big pain point. They have not had to deal with Major readjustment yet in their way to much capacity of assembly lines. The Unions think they can hold the country gov's to keeping everythin open and status quo yet they have not grasped that in todays global economy, adjustment have to be made now. I suspect we will see in the next 24 months massive plant closings as companies realign production to meet actual needs. Some of this will also come via moving production to other counteries with lower labor costs.
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    Interesting write up, so clearly FORD still has a ways to go to get more competative with a solid product is what I get out of this. Thanks for taking the time to drive and write this up.
  3. G. David Felt
    Saw a Tesla this morning being flatbedded by Mac towing services. Not sure if it broke down or just ran out of charge. Thinking about this, I guess for the absent minded, if they forget to charge and drive off, they for now will have to be towed till AAA or some other company figures out how to deliver a 220V charge to power these auto's.
  4. G. David Felt
    Can anyone explain the trend of going to the Large Mouth Billy Bass grill? Is this due to the amount of air needed for these overworked little turbo motors?
  5. G. David Felt
    Consolidation is the oxygen to the auto industry surviving. I see more than just 5 or 6 companies but I do see many folding into others to survive.
  6. G. David Felt
    H'mmm NOT a fan of the Big Mouth Billy Bass Look. FAILURE in my Book!
  7. G. David Felt
    Consolidation and then bring out the new toys is fine with me.
  8. G. David Felt
    I would take the Diesel over the Eco any day. The Diesel will far out last the eco model.
  9. G. David Felt
    Cool to see, sorry to have it come at the last minute, to little to late and as we all know, the high cost of manufacturing is not helping them down under.
  10. G. David Felt
    I know in various threads some have pounded on GM for still being the old GM. Yet with this said, once needs to aknowledge just how far they have come in a short time period and how fast they are responding to issues that show up in their auto's. While everyone would love an auto to be perfect from day one, at least it would seem that GM is having the engineers do long term testing and as issues show up they are responding to fixing them. The old GM never responded as fast to issues as the new GM is doing. As an engineer we do everything we can to test and make sure an product is 100% out the door and yet you cannot build an auto in 2-3 yeras and know the long term outcome of using new metals, new liquids, etc. In the early stages you do end up with having some tweaking to be done and at least while this seems to be done for the new GM auto's at least GM is also responding by taking care of issues pre-bankruptcy and correcting what past mgmt was passing the buck on. Happy to see the responses of GM to new Auto issues.
  11. G. David Felt
    Happy Belated B-Day DF!
  12. G. David Felt
    Very cool, never thought about it before but I can see how you would need to take the time to map this out and then have it in a database to bring up for later. The amount of labor up front I can see being the focus of bigger profits down the road.
  13. G. David Felt
    Naw, The Atheist and Agnostic crowd has this cornered!
  14. G. David Felt
    Nice write up, VW lack of quality and how they seem to always have tons in the shop being repaired makes me leary of considering them as an option. I see more free loaners from the local VW dealership on the road which also makes me wonder about delivery of quality auto's. I know they are not as bad as Mini with the amount of warranty defects right off the assembly line.
  15. G. David Felt
    Wonder if mathematics comes into play with the naming scheme?
  16. G. David Felt
    DRIODS ROCK! I just traded in my Samsung Charge for a Samsung note. Love the bigger size as it actually fits my fingers now.
  17. G. David Felt
    Have a 2008 trailblazer which based on my research uses the same unit. Have not had this problem and I do not find a listing of known problems but I do find others that have had the unit wear out with some getting swipes in one direction only and other not at all. Being that they use multiple suppliers for the same part, I wonder if one built it cheaper than another and as such you have units that all passed initial inspection and testing but over the long haul one last longer than another. I bet you can find a reasonable priced unit on one of the GM parts web sites and replace it yourself back to like new.
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    Not only that but it is amazing how many people want to blame the current folks in charge for this on another persons watch. Instead, pull in the forced out old executives and hold their feet to the fire for their greed and poor accountability. Do not burn the current people who are working hard to go in the right direction.
  19. G. David Felt
    Waste of time, this pretty much goes down the path of total gov control of what you do, when you do it and how you do it and allows people who are reckless and do not bother to take the time to maintain and repair their auto's to blame someone else for their stupidity. In other words this legislation is the continuation of going down the road of truly building a new cast system of have and have not's and blaming everyone else for a person not taking the responsibility of doing their maintenance and repairing normal wear and tear items. At this rate I could see auto makers building cars that last 100K miles and then saying you have to turn it back in for destruction and you really never own the auto.
  20. G. David Felt
    Probably burned cause we know how those California freakin greenies love to covert everything. Probably had one of those wonderful Electric conversions as to why this ended up in Chevy rather than GMC. Took the heart out of the Professional grade and left it Electric grade Chevy!
  21. G. David Felt
    Lets see if we have a million of these turbo's on the road after 100K miles. I wonder if this is a way to get auto's to the crusher faster to drive more consumption by selling a 100K car and then toss it.
  22. G. David Felt

    RIDDLE!

    G. David Felt replied to ocnblu's topic in Chevrolet

    Yawn, Put the new Corvette V8 or the TT V6 into a mid size truck and call it Syclone. That would be bad ass. Full size trucks are for work, not impressed with the peeps that lower them, bag them and pretty much destroy the truck from the usefulness of what it is intended for.
  23. G. David Felt
    This could have some very cool implications for Chevy and other divisions if GM does this right with useing them to built limited production runs yearly of select elite performance auto's. From Cars to Trucks even CUV/SUV's.
  24. G. David Felt
    WOW Did not know Ocn was so short he needed a booster seat to see over the dashboard!
  25. G. David Felt
    WOW First impressions are Clean and a soft spot for their attempt. After looking at the photo's at the link, I would not touch it as that is a rust bucket about to die. Amazing it is that clean inside. I figure the dealership or the original owner before trading it in cleaned it up to get best trade in value. The rust and cracks make me think it will just vaporize on impact with a Detroit pot hole.
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