Featured Prius (and all Toyota vehicles) & the Kobe Steel Revelations

There a thing on BBC app about Nissan stopping producing cars in Japan because of their own QA failings. Interested???

 

That sounds like it would be a new thread.
It has to be better than my last one. No responses & 1 like IIRC.

 

Swapping tabs like a wild thang, but I posted the link on Fred's eventually.

 

News makes more sense. They make EVs too, you know. Since it is Autumn, I guess the Leafs are falling... <GROAN>

 

The delay for the Prime was because of quality problems with the carbon fiber hatch.

 

that was one, but steel was another. google it.

 

Provide links 'cause I'm getting nothing.

 

sorry, wish i could. i got a whole page of them, just by typing, 'toyota prime delayed due to steel plant explosion'.

 

None of the links I found mentioned Prime for the US. I remember there were *rumors* that the US Prime would be delayed, but I do not remember any verifiable facts.

 

first article i get is reuters, about the steel plant explosion, and toyota factory stoppage. maybe not prime, but specific to this thread.

 

The headline to that article also states the stoppage was for a week only.
The factory the Prime is made at was surely one shut down, but a week isn't really enough of a delay to be newsworthy for a single model. The hatch issue resulted in delays of a month to months depending on the market.

 

sorry, didn't mean to mislead by stating prime. i had just remembered that there was a delay. the point is, could the explosion have lead to doing business (or more business) with kobe, and might that force them to increase production, while failing to maintain quality.

 

Prius was delayed, according to
Toyota Puts the Brakes on Prius Production - Consumer Reports


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Explosion at Japan Steel Plant Injures at Least 13 — Naharnet


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As was every other car that was made in Japan.

 

and may have put more pressure kobe production.

 

From the Mainichi: "Toyota said in a statement late Thursday that it had confirmed that aluminum plates used in hoods, rear hatches and other components of its vehicles from Kobe Steel met requirements for strength and durability based on data from the company that was "furthest outside of Toyota's specifications."

It said it was still investigating non-aluminum products from Kobe Steel."

Japan standards inspectors search Kobe Steel over faked data - The Mainichi

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But it sounds like Kobe issues started long before that.

 

probably right. i was just speculating.

 

Automaker Subaru (FUJHF) said Friday that it's planning to recall roughly 255,000 cars after admitting it allowed uncertified workers to carry out inspections on its vehicles.

The company found that workers at its biggest Japanese factory were still in training to be certified when they took part in inspections.

Subaru is latest big Japanese company to admit it screwed up - Oct. 27, 2017

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