Automotive recalls - the 'fashionable' thing to do

[addyguy]

Originally Posted By: Spyder7
I breath all the time. I sleep every day (because I work nights), and I eat daily as well.

I do those things because they are necessary, not because they are fashionable.

-Spyder


What's that got to do with automotive recalls?

 

[Spyder7]

Originally Posted By: addyguy
Originally Posted By: Spyder7
I breath all the time. I sleep every day (because I work nights), and I eat daily as well.

I do those things because they are necessary, not because they are fashionable.

-Spyder


What's that got to do with automotive recalls?


The same thing that everyone and their dog doing all the time has to with recalls - nothing.

-Spyder

 

[whip]

Originally Posted By: addyguy
Originally Posted By: whip
Calling recalls "fashionable" might be the craziest thing I've ever heard.


When everyone and their dog does something, all at the same time, it is b/c it is 'fashionable'...it's what 'looks good' at the time.

Just like automotive recalls do, right now.

Does that mean millions of people were foreclosed on their homes because it was fashionable? They did it to "fit in"?

I thought most of the recalls were because the car companies wanted to save a few pennies per model and put cheaper parts on the cars, and those cheaper parts were failing.

 

[ItsuMitsubishi]

Originally Posted By: whip
Does that mean millions of people were foreclosed on their homes because it was fashionable? They did it to "fit in"?

I thought most of the recalls were because the car companies wanted to save a few pennies per model and put cheaper parts on the cars, and those cheaper parts were failing.

Perhaps it wasn't the foreclosures itself that were fashionable, so much as it was taking out ridiculous loans and mortgages that people clearly knew they could not repay upon dropping their signature. One step further back, it could have been banks that thought it was fashionable to lend money to people who wouldn't normally qualify for these loans, only to stimulate their own liquidity. For it is the signatures themselves of a debtor promising pay back later with interest, that creates money (as debt) for the institution to invest with now (by relending several times it's own future profits on the promise of the debtors to pay back, with interest- a cycle that creates a bubble).

 

[ZeeOSix]

Originally Posted By: addyguy

I say is a farce. Companies have realized that recalls 'look good' - it looks like they are paying attention to quality and catching problems, when there may not be that much of a problem. Recalls have beome that latest way compnanies look like they are paying attention to quality - it's beome 'fashionable'.


I think it's more driven by the fact that if they know there is a safety problem and they don't do a recall and get caught (like Toyota), that their reputation can ruined and they can also be financially ruined by huge lawsuits. Those are two pretty big incentives to do a recall I would think. It takes a long time to recover from both for any company.

 

[Vizzy]

The numerous recalls also tells the customer that the average product today is a bigger piece of [censored] while at the same time being more costly as well...

I don't like much of ANYTHING that is on the market today.

 

[Spyder7]

Originally Posted By: Vizzy
The numerous recalls also tells the customer that the average product today is a bigger piece of [censored] while at the same time being more costly as well...

I don't like much of ANYTHING that is on the market today.


+1.

-Spyder