JLR on 3 day week

[Ares]

alfabadass said:

I wouldn't accept £600, I'd be rejecting and head towards Audi

....because you want to drive something that doesn't feel like driving a car?

[JxJ Jr.]

sapf0 said:

...there is a major moral problem due to the union/middle management....Arrogant managers don't even acknowledge those 'below' them, and in turn the lads on the track work to rule, and wont go the extra mile.

Having worked across quite a broad swathe of the global automotive industry - including JLR - I wouldn't necessarily go along with the inference that the 'lads on the track' would go the extra mile even if they were supposedly treated better. The company has problems at the top, in the middle and at the bottom.

[CambsBill]

LDN said:

Digga said:

The thing I found with JLR was, they did always tend to hit quality/recall issues head-on, rather than sweeping them under the carpet or trying to minimise service network disruption by waiting to catch them on a scheduled service..

I agree. Recalls get dealt with as they should; for the most part.

Contrast this with Mercedes handling of the Blue Efficiency injector issues they had a few years ago - from multiple blogs at the time they knew all about the problem but didn't have the parts to do a recall so just waited until customer cars broke down and fixed those

[havoc]

JxJ Jr. said:

sapf0 said:

...there is a major moral problem due to the union/middle management....Arrogant managers don't even acknowledge those 'below' them, and in turn the lads on the track work to rule, and wont go the extra mile.

Having worked across quite a broad swathe of the global automotive industry - including JLR - I wouldn't necessarily go along with the inference that the 'lads on the track' would go the extra mile even if they were supposedly treated better. The company has problems at the top, in the middle and at the bottom.

And at Solihull a lot more are at the bottom than the top.

Halewood was a really pleasant surprise, given the bad rep Scousers tend to get...

[Rovinghawk]

alfabadass said:

I wouldn't accept £600, I'd be rejecting and head towards Audi

It's not £600, it's £600 worth of options.

[craigjm]

Rovinghawk said:

alfabadass said:

I wouldn't accept £600, I'd be rejecting and head towards Audi

It's not £600, it's £600 worth of options.

No it wasn’t. It was £600 of compensation for not having certain equipment fitted that should have been standard at the factory

Edited by craigjm on Tuesday 12th February 14:30

[Krikkit]

Brooking10 said:

alfabadass said:

craigjm said:

Well quality control is still as rubbish as ever

https://www.carscoops.com/2019/01/jaguar-e-pace-su...

Actually delivered to customers and then because there is “no fix” they are offering $600 compensation! Outrageous. I would be driving it straight back and getting my money back.

When are they finally going to learn how to build a car properly. To make it worse these are the cars contracted out in Austria.

£600? Imagine buying a new Luxury car with all that missing? Not even Apple and Android ICE?

LMAO

Hmmm that’s not great is it ?

Looks a class-action waiting to happen

That doesn't mention how many cars are affected - could be 10 cars for all we know?

[Digga]

havoc said:

Halewood was a really pleasant surprise, given the bad rep Scousers tend to get...

It's always been a very good factory. One of the lads who used to work in our warehouse has been up there for ages working for DHL on the logistics side and finds it to be generally well run.

In other news, the all new 3 litre V6 Ingenium engine will be built at the JLR Wolverhampton engine plant: https://www.insidermedia.com/insider/midlands/jlrs...

[NomduJour]

It’s a straight six.

[Digga]

NomduJour said:

It’s a straight six.

Funny you should say that, I was wondering whether I'd not heard it was straight.

The engine in the picture (in the linked article) looked pretty 'boxy' so I assumed a V6.

[NomduJour]

https://media.landrover.com/news/2019/02/new-range...

[Digga]

NomduJour said:

https://media.landrover.com/news/2019/02/new-range...

Thanks.

And fk me! That's a straight six?!? Looks unbelievably boxy. Must be all the electrical and emissions gubbins I guess?



Good luck to them anyway.

[craigjm]

All the ingenium engines are straight because they are modular and therefore the 4 has just been extended to a 6 and it will be chopped to a 3 as well.

[Sheepshanks]

havoc said:

Halewood was a really pleasant surprise, given the bad rep Scousers tend to get...

Halewood isn't in Liverpool.

[Tom_Spotley_When]

Sheepshanks said:

Halewood isn't in Liverpool.

It might as well be. It's in Speke and has a Liverpool postcode....

[Sheepshanks]

Tom_Spotley_When said:

Sheepshanks said:

Halewood isn't in Liverpool.

It might as well be. It's in Speke and has a Liverpool postcode....

Nope. It's in Halewood.

It's in the Liverpool postal area, but then so was Southport until they won their campaign to get it changed.

I don't suppose there are statistics published, but I'd be gobsmacked if Scousers aren't in the minority there.

[Digga]

Sheepshanks said:

Tom_Spotley_When said:

Sheepshanks said:

Halewood isn't in Liverpool.

It might as well be. It's in Speke and has a Liverpool postcode....

Nope. It's in Halewood.

It's in the Liverpool postal area, but then so was Southport until they won their campaign to get it changed.

I don't suppose there are statistics published, but I'd be gobsmacked if Scousers aren't in the minority there.

Outnumbered by the Hezbollah?

[Sheepshanks]

Digga said:

Outnumbered by the Hezbollah?

...otherwise known as woolybacks.

[bobtail4x4]

we visited the other year,
it was mainly full of scousers,

[Digga]

A.G. said:

Wife's from there and it is indeed mainly full of scousers.

And my mate from Cannock.