On 21-okt-03, at 6:57, mark romero wrote:
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Just seems like nothin ever breaks that's covered until a mile after the warrenty expires. I think they design the cars/trucks to do that.
You bet they do. Ever hear the story of the model-T (or a similarly early Ford model) king-pin? I'm not sure how much of this is history and how much is apocryphal but it sounds very believable to me:
In the early days, Henry Ford asked some of his underlings to scour the car scrap heaps of his time to tally and analyse the causes of breakdown of his cars. What they found was that all parts were approximately equally likely to go, except for the king-pins. Judging from his sales figures and feedback that his customers weren't complaining of the longevity of the cars in general, Ford concluded that his king-pins were overengineered in comparison with the rest of the car, and that he could get away with specifying his kin-pins to a lesser standard; which is what happened of course...
henk
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