Automotive bubble....has it burst?

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Jody Treadway said:
I forget what it was, but we'd drain the crankcase, add 1 qt of the stuff, take them to the storage yard behind the shop, floor them till they seized up
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Hol up. Are you referring to cars that the dealership couldn’t sell and qualified for cash for clunkers?
 
NickMaul said:
Hol up. Are you referring to cars that the dealership couldn’t sell and qualified for cash for clunkers?
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I was told in order to get the cash the cars had to go through that procedure.
 
NickMaul said:
Hol up. Are you referring to cars that the dealership couldn’t sell and qualified for cash for clunkers?
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Nope.
Any vehicles that were traded in under the C4C guise HAD to have their engines locked up. No exceptions.
We would bring them in the shop, drain oil, add the juice, ease them to the side yard- blow them up where they were left until a tow company hauled them away
 
Jody Treadway said:
Nope.
Any vehicles that were traded in under the C4C guise HAD to have their engines locked up. No exceptions.
We would bring them in the shop, drain oil, add the juice, ease them to the side yard- blow them up where they were left until a tow company hauled them away
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Oof. If one were so inclined could you snag any good non engine parts off of it before it got hauled away? Would anyone even know?
 
I may have snagged some free parts off some trucks at a local dealership near me. It was sad seeing good vehicles get locked up. Local Nissan dealer didn't care what I took of them... but they didn't lock them up either, said the salvage yard was doing it. I'm not sure they did... was a waste of some good iron for sure
 
drkelly said:
www.carscoops.com

Jeep Cuts Prices, Bets On New Models To Hit 1 Million Sales | Carscoops

The brand sold just 643,000 vehicles last year, well down from the record 973,000 it shifted in 2018
www.carscoops.com www.carscoops.com
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"Jeep also ended production of the Renegade and Cherokee last year, slashing the brand’s market coverage from around 80 percent to just 45 percent."

So they cut two of their least expensive models, and dropped out of the 'economy ' market, and expect to sell more vehicles now?

It's the mid~late seventies all over again, when the K-Car had to save Chrysler... In the 2030's look for US Manufactures to realize that they can't keep shoveling just oversized monstrosities (again), and to build and push absolute crap economy cars on us all...
 
zuke said:
"Jeep also ended production of the Renegade and Cherokee last year, slashing the brand’s market coverage from around 80 percent to just 45 percent."

So they cut two of their least expensive models, and dropped out of the 'economy ' market, and expect to sell more vehicles now?

It's the mid~late seventies all over again, when the K-Car had to save Chrysler... In the 2030's look for US Manufactures to realize that they can't keep shoveling just oversized monstrosities (again), and to build and push absolute crap economy cars on us all...
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Also:
"Efforts are also being made to improve the quality and reliability of Jeep models, and as such, the launches of the Wagoneer S and Recon have been delayed by four to six weeks."
I'd love to know what they plan to redesign, source, manufacture, and retrofit onto existing vehicles in 4-6 weeks :rolleyes:

What that really means is "our lowest cost supplier was so shitty that WE don't even trust their parts, so the second lowest cost supplier is in a big rush to make them as fast and as cheap as possible"
 
jeepinmatt said:
Also:
"Efforts are also being made to improve the quality and reliability of Jeep models, and as such, the launches of the Wagoneer S and Recon have been delayed by four to six weeks."
I'd love to know what they plan to redesign, source, manufacture, and retrofit onto existing vehicles in 4-6 weeks :rolleyes:

What that really means is "our lowest cost supplier was so shitty that WE don't even trust their parts, so the second lowest cost supplier is in a big rush to make them as fast and as cheap as possible"
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It can also be a situation where a failure or multiple failures are discovered late in testing and are now requiring new designs to be rushed along that could not meet the original planned production start so production is delayed. Not that I would know anything about that though.
 
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