US build quality
#1
Account Closed
Thread Starter
Joined: Sep 2005
Posts: 15,455
US build quality
Since moving here we bought a Westinghouse TV which broke down almost immediately and had to have a complete new board. Ford car had to have front axle replaced. American kettle only worked for about 2 weeks. Now a brand new water heater has stopped working, installer says we have to deal with it through manufacturers under warranty - no message service, I have to call them during office hours.
On this showing I would characterise American products as
On this showing I would characterise American products as
#2
Account Closed
Joined: Aug 2004
Posts: 22,220
Re: US build quality
Since moving here we bought a Westinghouse TV which broke down almost immediately and had to have a complete new board. Ford car had to have front axle replaced. American kettle only worked for about 2 weeks. Now a brand new water heater has stopped working, installer says we have to deal with it through manufacturers under warranty - no message service, I have to call them during office hours.
On this showing I would characterise American products as
On this showing I would characterise American products as
(Unless we are talking about arms or munitions)
#3
Re: US build quality
Luck of the draw...some of it ain't bad....but there is a whole lot of crap out there...but then it's the throw away society, make it cheap, let it break and replace mentality...
Though the water heater bricking it would have really pissed me off
Though the water heater bricking it would have really pissed me off
#5
Re: US build quality
Since moving here we bought a Westinghouse TV which broke down almost immediately and had to have a complete new board. Ford car had to have front axle replaced. American kettle only worked for about 2 weeks. Now a brand new water heater has stopped working, installer says we have to deal with it through manufacturers under warranty - no message service, I have to call them during office hours.
On this showing I would characterise American products as
On this showing I would characterise American products as
NC Penguin
#7
Re: US build quality
I think its more to do with the lack of a warrenty ....in the Uk you get the standard 12 months ...here you get 30 days .... Hell Asda was giving away 3 year warrenties with any electrical item when I left the UK ...you try that one in Walmart...
The company I work for deals with Cat and John Deere ...they make tractors and earth movers for gods sake ..yet you'd think we were making stuff for NASA with the tolerances they now ask for .....
The company I work for deals with Cat and John Deere ...they make tractors and earth movers for gods sake ..yet you'd think we were making stuff for NASA with the tolerances they now ask for .....
#8
Account Closed
Joined: Nov 2003
Posts: 8,266
Re: US build quality
We're doing a tad bit of remodeling on ours at the moment. I can't wait to see my brother's face when he arrives in a couple of weeks and gazes upon the 'cardboard' walls......priceless.
#11
Re: US build quality
yeah it stinks. the Chinese send all the good quality TVs and kettles to the UK, and send the rubbish ones to USA. we need a petition.
#12
Re: US build quality
Since moving here we bought a Westinghouse TV which broke down almost immediately and had to have a complete new board. Ford car had to have front axle replaced. American kettle only worked for about 2 weeks. Now a brand new water heater has stopped working, installer says we have to deal with it through manufacturers under warranty - no message service, I have to call them during office hours.
On this showing I would characterise American products as
On this showing I would characterise American products as
Expensive cooker (Thermador) the door doesn't fit properly so it doesn't cook evenly. Again they are happy to fix it but it keeps on not fitting again.
Clothes that shrink the first time they are washed and continue to shrink with every subsequent wash. (No it's not me getting bigger...well not much).
#13
Re: US build quality
But there's generally the shitty Dell, IBM and deep blue....plenty of software, but that don't count, and Autodesk is Canadian and they bought Kinetik/Discreet and Alias.
#14
Re: US build quality
It doesn't matter where somethings built, they still have to meet QA, and if those levels are set so low, it's the companies fault, not the manufacturer.
#15
Account Closed
Joined: Jul 2005
Posts: 15,019
Re: US build quality
Since moving here we bought a Westinghouse TV which broke down almost immediately and had to have a complete new board. Ford car had to have front axle replaced. American kettle only worked for about 2 weeks. Now a brand new water heater has stopped working, installer says we have to deal with it through manufacturers under warranty - no message service, I have to call them during office hours.
On this showing I would characterise American products as
On this showing I would characterise American products as
a no moaning day today sally so i'm keeping schtummmmm except to say good luck and buy german