Yes your right. I thought you were making a little sense - but it now seems it's worse than I thought.
Well that makes it crystal clear you are the one that doesn't comprehend.
That gauge is designed to be extremely sensitive in the range of 212-240.
It looks to me like you are looking at good design and you call that doctoring. The gauge moves quickly through the range of 150°-185°F. T hat movement in that range tells the driver that heat should now be available . Also, the gauge is very responsive in the range where the driver needs to
be concerned about overheating. In the Normal operating range the gauge i s nice and steady. I don't see how this can be interpreted as a problem. They have done some good engineering to address many of your complaints.
So you advocate eliminating gas gauges now?
That's right. That attitude is OK for someone driving a high mileage beater - when it craps out you just walk away from it. But when a car company takes that same attitude about a fairly low mileage new car - wel l let's just say it isn't surprising when that company finds itself in financial trouble.
Car companies don't have the disdain for customers that you do. Engineering is not just about making something work. It needs to work for
the people who use it. Besides you are arguing out of both sides of your ass it's either that drivers don't pay attention to the gauge or they rea d too much into it.
A good car company thinks encouraging the customer to come in for routine maintenance is a good thing. Faced with an unwarranted complaint about the engine lubrication the dealership isn't going to do anything bu t change their oil, filter and other ordinary maintenance (and bill the customer for it). There isn't going to be any warranty cost unless the dealership has a real indication that something is actually wrong.
No its not a waste of time. Pulling the wool over customers eyes may get you through the warranty period without a claim. But that isn't the way t o build reliability into your product or generate long term customer confidence.
You are not very bright if you think a car dealership strips an engine down every time a customer complains about something or the other. You ar e completely brain dead if think that is what I am asking for.
As you pointed out the oil pressure will drop over the life of the engine. Most people buy a car with the expectation that the the life of the car means something a little longer than the warranty period. Even if
they sell it at that point they still expect it be worth something and no t used up.
The dealership is only adversely affected by what the gauge tells the customer if the car subsequently has an engine failure due to poor lubrication. Otherwise for a dealer that is selling cars and he has confidence in their reliability the complaint will be viewed as an opportunity to sell the customer more maintenance or even another car. Th e most a dealer will ever do for a customer like you describe is to offer t o make a note in the customers service record so that if anything should happen the manufacturer will be held accountable.
The car manufacturers who sell cars that don't have gauges would like yo u to believe gauges were eliminated because it was costing them something due to customer imagined problems. It wasn't. It only actually cost them when there was a real actual problem. I do accept that removing the gauge
in some cases lowered warranty costs - that is it allowed the manufacture r to avoid the problem while the warranty was in affect. But in the long ru n the company would be far better off by increasing the reliability instead
of focusing on hiding unreliability.
-jim
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