Well the reality today is all automakers buy parts from all over the world. This is not unusual at all.
Here's the problem. Show me one US automaker with 100% US content. Where are you going to switch to? Don't get me wrong, I'm not happy about it. But this is the world we live in.
WHO said Switch.. Boycott means stop buying... keep what you own alive... buy used... DONT BUY NEW... But that takes everybody...
This should devolve quickly. Why stop with cars? Boycott everything not made in the states... hell throw away anything you have thats outsourced!
A Henry Rifle might be the only thing in the field with you, because the house has parts made god knows where. .
While masking a Traverse hatch I see this tag on the wire harness, lmao And proudly so; in bold type too! Not even in microprinting. FOUR hours last night with GOOGLE in Manila getting a Google Mesh system (a series of 3 WIFI repeaters to reach out to my shop). Literally wires (all skinny and black of course) all over the office, furniture moved etc to find a BLACK, CAT 5 port with dark gray scale micro printing which happens to be the important one to feed the system. The single instruction page of course had ZERO text, just a simple single line schematic. Our house runs 3 desk tops, two laptops, Google home audio in each room and the shops, plus crack phones that seek out a hot spot when the wifi is out. Phone did get "hot" BTW. Best Buy swears PRUG AND PRAY... especially the pray part. Im pulling out the IBM Selectric and snail mailing from here on in./ At least the mail isnt censored.... yet.
It would be hard to find an automaker with 100% U.S. content since the U.S. and Canada are so entwined. The same part may go over the border 2 or 3 times.
Awhile ago I had a 2009 Nissan Altima that was built in Tennessee. At the time, I think that car had the most North American content of any other vehicle produced in that year.
Parts come from allover the world. Made in America now translates to Assembled in America and even that can be misleading.
I don't see what is funny. Perhaps I'm just missing the point. Clue me in, please. And I do have a warped sense of humor sometimes.
The tag on the wiring harness indicates "made in Indonesia"... I think it was intended to be ironic given it was on a Chevy.
Those jobs used to be done by Packard Wiring systems......just like all the Delco Electronics/Delphi Systems voltage regulators,ignition modules,manifold absolute pressure sensors,air bag modules,ECM's and radios and entertainment systems that used to be made here at GM in Kokomo Indiana.....when GM spun off their parts supplier divisions to Delphi.....then the race to the bottom for price and parts began...and the loss of our jobs....they opened plants in Mexico.......and the junk foreign parts that took our jobs is pathetic.....i will NEVER forget when the Engineers of the voltage regulator lines in my department...and i am a skilled trades Journeyman Electrician of 30+ years.....they got their hands on units of the first Chinese knock offs.... an alternator voltage one wire internal regulator.....one of our best products.....they were bidding $10 less per unit.....when the engineers and techs opened them up.....they were "discreet components" hand wired and encapsulated in a housing that looked exactly like our GM units.....imagine the hours that it took at hand labor to produce enough of these to take and win a bid of 100,00's of parts and take American jobs...but they did it.... now let me tell you about our voltage regulator........90% produced in-house.....ceramic substrate that was laser scribe d (i had 4 different types of lasers to maintain) ..then the circuit was printed along with the resistors.....then it was solder printed and the resistors and external contact pads and beryllium pads for the power transistors that were made at Delco were added and run thru a re-flow oven....after that they went into a laser and the resistors were trimmed.....i could go on...but the bottom line is .....our parts were world class with an initial quality of 99%+......but here we are now.....other countries have our jobs.....it's a world economy ....for better or for worse... Peace WildBill
Companies make descisions about quality and its their job to follow through regardless of where the parts are made. Delphi used to have a plant in Buffalo NY (might still?) that produced electrical parts for the "New United Motors" venture which was a joint GM/Toyota setup. Toyota rejected many parts that didn't meet quality standards. Some of these were then taken and accepted by GM for their "Nova" and Prizm and whatever they called the poorer quality Toyota's they were building. Quality is NOT about where something is made. It's about the people making it caring about doing it right. Especially the people at the top.
What ever....did you work in the industry ? at NUMMI....we supplied them.....tell me about our quailty ! ....i was just giving you a perspective on what was happening in the industry at that time with my particular division of Delphi....we had 99% quality and we tested every part before it left the plant.....my wife had a NOVA of that vintage when we married.....great joint venture and we put 200,ooo mile on that car....and you want to dis the GM parts on that car...really ? Peace WildBill
Well....that's what they were doing right here in Cornfield Indiana but you suggest otherwise... you don't know HOOSIERS ! Peace WildBill
Here is my wife's NOVA and my 4-speed 4-door Cavalier with Citation X-11 wheels.......both were great cars....so what are you telling me..... Peace WildBill
