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Originally Posted by CaptainSlow
Even the simplest car is an extremely complicated machine...you also have to remember the difference between a development vehicle and production. There is a lot of stuff that changes between the development and production stage, and sometimes those changes translate into minor little issues that can be fixed later through warranty work, TSBs, etc. The truth is that when you are in development your sample size is relatively small...when you get out into production, the sample size increases exponentially, and sometimes things happen that you can't see or predict on a small sample size.
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I understand that and appreciate it. I work in automotive R&D for a large automaker. Development ceases at a set point and no other changes are allowed, and test vehicles are built using production parts and assembly techniques. My point is all the issues would have been seen during this testing, and it was decided to forego making anymore changes and start productions with known "defects" - idle, deck pop, GPS, dead pedal, etc. It just seems like a car with so much riding on it, they would allow so many little things, and a few big ones like the ECU, to follow into production.
The testing is so rigorousness on cars, there is NO WAY
every one of these issues wasn't seen, duly noted, and then ignored to rush production. Trust me, much smaller issues that the customer would probably never be aware of are usually caught during testing every day where I work.