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krazykuda said

I hate that they have removed the key from the passenger door (cost saving... :mad: :icon_fU:)....

When I wrecked my Impala, the driver's fender got pushed back and I could not open the driver's door... When I drove it home, the headlight stayed on (the other one was taken out n the accident) ... I had to unplug the headlight so it didn't drain my battery as with no way to unlock the door with a dead battery, I couldn't get in my car as the driver door was not an option... I couldn't open the hood as it was too damaged from the accident... :icon_fU: :mad:

I hate cost reductions.... :mad: :mob:

If you haven't noticed back around 2003, Chrysler removed the tint strip along the top of the windshield as a cost reduction... :icon_fU: :mad:

I think that's total bs.... :bs_flag:

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Another cost reduction that actually bit them in the @ss was to remove the secondary locks on the electrical connections... The latch that locks the connectors together and keeps them from coming apart...

Well, within two weeks, the car plants had too many "non connections" and they had to pay the supplier to come in and put the secondary locks in the electrical harnesses that we had in house while they put them back in on the new stock coming in... :realcrazy: :mad:

Either the connections were not properly made, or they came undone without the locks in them... :BangHead:

Luckily they kept the feature in for the locks and didn't remove them from the tooling and were able to install the locks on the harnesses when they found out it wasn't a good idea...

Sometimes they go too far with the cost reductions and hurt functionality or quality or both...
I loved seeing that one bite them in the ***... :lol: