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Originally Posted by Tcoat
It is no longer the 90s
If they make things different for the JDM market than they do for export then they are violating their own systems and are therefore no more reliable in quality than something made elsewhere.
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Originally Posted by Dadhawk
So, what you are saying is they have different quality standards based on the destination of the product, not based on the workers. That feeds directly into what @ Tcoat was saying as well. |
That's right it's no longer the 90's. I think Made in Japan quality overall has actually gotten worse these days in general.
For the longest time it was pretty common knowledge that for the same product Made in Japan, they keep a higher QC (let's say @ 98%) for domestic consumption since their own population has a low tolerance for defects. While the ones made that resulted in slightly lower quality (let's say @ 95%) will be destined for export, since they know it'll still be made better than competing foreign made products.
After the 2008 crash and during that Toyota unintended acceleration debacle, I think the word got out that the Japanese factories started hiring young part time workers to fill the line that could care less about craftsmanship which irked alot of the older workers whose primary focus was on quality.