Wheel question for newbie

[Larry C Leung]

Well, how do other manufacturers deal with it (there are such things as
self loading air-wrenches)? Also, if you are installing finished lug
nuts, they may be "cap" style, that is, the side that faces out would be
closed and finished. Wonder how assy line workers could screw that up. 

FWIW, when I worked as an engineer, I and other engineers on our staff
successfully trained workers that even worked at minimum wage to assemble
fairly complex miniture assemblies. I would imagine VAG shouldn't have
THAT hard a time training it's workers. It sounds more like an excuse to
me.....

Just my $0.02

LL - NY

On Tue, 17 Apr 2001 22:30:13 +0100 "Jim Haseltine"
<Jim at Ur-q.freeserve.co.uk> writes:
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Larry C Leung" <l.leung at juno.com>
>
>
>> Oh My God. Does Audi feel it's assembly line workers are THAT blind 
>or
>> stupid! (I'd bet liability laws end as the car rolls off the 
>assembly
>> ramp!).
>>
>
>Actually, they probably do and with good cause.  I have seen all sorts 
>of
>efforts produced by 'trained' assembly line works over the years. In 
>one
>case it was a fluid check valve that had been fitted backwards even 
>though
>the flow direction arrow was obviously pointing in the opposite 
>direction to
>all the others. I've seen over-sized parts forced into place,  
>under-sized
>parts packed out with shims. I have at times assumed that what I was 
>looking
>at was the result of deliberate sabotage because I couldn't believe 
>that
>anybody could be _that_ stupid - but they can be. Now I deal with 
>software
>designers and they can be just as bad.
>
>British Leyland used to have a wonderful vehicle hidden away which had 
>been
>returned from a dealer because of what was found during a pre-deliver 
>check.
>It had been built when the brake design was changed from front drums 
>to
>discs and had made its way out of the factory with a drum on the left 
>and a
>disc on the right.
>
>Regards,
>
>Jim Haseltine
>
>