This is true, and this is EVERY corporation. I know a tech at the Cummins test facility and they are the same way. I work at John Deere, and sadly, they are the same way... It doesn't matter who it is, every company wants a lower cost to open up profits and 99% of the time quality suffers.
JD has gotten pretty greedy lately. And turned enough people off.
I will say they did step up and cover a large part of the bill when our cutterhead split on the SPFH we had awhile back before going to claas. I drove to quad cities to get it though which was fine but then had to wait for the order to be filled for a couple hours. Turns out our stuff had been ready but dealer wanted me to pick up parts they needed for a combine or something. Words were exchanged heavily. We were already a couple days behind due to this problem.
Agco is having tons of issues with their newer Massey stuff because of poor outsourcing. We switched to Fendt and I don't want to junk it but it's been literally trouble free for nearly 850hrs now. Quality is there, but they do a lot in house or with close trusted sources, not the lowest bidder. Germans are known for being arrogant and only liking themselves, in this case it pays off I guess.
I like the duramax but won't buy GM otherwise. What I don't get is that if they are trying to make bigger profits by cutting quality, why are the profits not showing? I love our TDIs, they have their issues as well but it's not hard to hit 200k with one and not have it falling to pieces. Now a duramax will live that long but the rest of the truck shows its age by then. Look at resale of domestic car at 200k versus import? Especially look at TDI value. You can't buy one for under 6 grand here if it's 2000 or newer with a manual but I can buy a duramax for a couple grand more?
My question though is why do GMs profits still seem to be so low with all of this cost cutting. I haven't seen recent numbers but a couple years ago GMs profits were 7 billion while VWs were 26 billion. I feel I get my moneys worth out of VW products but GM leaves a lot to be desired. 50k for a pickup truck and you still don't get express up windows, hell all you get is express down on drivers window unless you get LTZ. My TDI is 15 years older and has express up/down without a luxury package.
Heated cloth seats apparently are not on domestic radar either.
I could go on but I'll stop.
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