Daimler employees sabotaged own cars

German newspapers, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, are reporting that employees at the Mercedes-Benz factory in Sindelfingen are under investigation for deliberately producing defective cars. Prosecutors are claiming that numerous workers have manipulated vehicles so that external repair workshops, which are not part of the Daimler AG, would get the job to fix them.
The employees were part of the “quality” control department, and received expensive gifts and trips for sabotaging the vehicles. The cost to Mercedes-Benz is in the millions. It will be interesting to see what the magnitude of this is and if there are more cases like this. While we definitely can’t blame all MB defects on the group in Sindelfingen (would be nice if we could) Daimler AG need to do a thorough investigation and come to the bottom of this.
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woood - 11/18/2008 10:04:42 AM

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Yup! Or maybe Daimler is just putting the blame on the saboteurs for their poor quality cars.

Willis - 11/18/2008 11:21:14 AM

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Sure. *Sarcasm*

Daimler quality has improved tremendously over the last few years. I recall reading in a British survey that current W204 C class and W221 S class owners have reported that their cars have been very reliable for over a period of 6 months+.

Agent63 - 11/20/2008 4:27:54 AM

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I've owned the previous generation S and is driving the current gen S550 and quality is there. The cars that got hit hard with quality issues since 97 was the infamous faulty ML. It didn't trickle it's way the higher range, at least not in a major way.

Perhaps some of the employees were bribed by other companies to produce defect cars. The world will never know.

woood - 11/18/2008 10:28:34 PM

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6 months. LOL!