Hyundai Recall Being Linked To Quality - Wait That Isn't How It Works...Is It?

South Korea's Hyundai Motor Co and its affiliate Kia Motors Corp will take "global action" to fix a potentially faulty brake light switch, after they said they planned to recall almost 1.9 million cars in the United States.

The move may mean the world's fifth-biggest automaker ends up recalling even more vehicles than that number, Hyundai's U.S. record, and is a stark warning that it may have sacrificed quality standards for rapid expansion.
 
Chairman Chung Mong-koo consistently stresses that quality should come first, and has recently slowed the pace of capacity expansion in favor of stricter quality control, but analysts say the shift in direction has come too late.

"Hyundai has built factories very fast around the globe until recent years, but its quality improvement has failed to keep up with its rapid volume growth," said Kim Phill-soo, a professor at Department of Automotive Engineering at Daelim University College in Seoul.

"The latest recall highlighted loopholes in Hyundai's quality system."



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Agent009 - 4/4/2013 12:26:25 PM

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Hmmm... quality and recalls related... novel concept ...something we have been saying all along.

Recalls typically revolve around:
Defective designs
Defective production
Defective assembly
Defective components

Seriously how could a recall NOT be a defect?

USNA1999 - 4/4/2013 3:17:09 PM

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Now let's ensure Consumer Reports, JDP and all those crappy publications start using this concept so they can have some credibility for a change. I bet they won't since they get money from the big boys.

HughJass - 4/4/2013 4:57:18 PM

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Sacrifice quality for expansion. Copied the Japs to a tee.

dodgedart - 4/4/2013 10:02:00 PM

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Hyundai isn't pretending there's nothing wrong. How many non-hyundai car makers built cars with self-shorting fire-prone wiring harnesses and didn't change the design for 6 continuous years or more? How many well established car makers managed to design manufacture and distribute all-new fire prone electric assemblies despite knowing the costs of doing so? How long as Ford or Chrysler been building cars? They would rather have a problem with expanding too fast I'm sure.

HughJass - 4/5/2013 3:31:07 PM

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Sounds like the Koreans copied us and the Japs so well they even copied the defects. Didn't even bother to see if there was a problem. Strange they didn't have the time to doublecheck since they didn't have to spend the time actually engineering their vehicles.
However, finding a problem would mean they'd actually have to know what the parts do and how they should perform.
Meh, Hyundai had its 15 minutes.