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Originally Posted by ckt227
Mike at the Camaro plant does not really care about your $77,000 dollar ZL1 1LE. And Mike at the Ford plant does not care about your $90,000 Mustang GT500. And you guessed it, Mike at the Dodge plant does not care about your $80,000 Charger Hellcat. These 3 Mike's are there for a paycheck and keep management and the bean counters happy.
Assembly line workers are not concerned that anyone special ordered a car. Car starts the building process, between humans and robots, goes down the line, pieces and parts get put on, car assembled, car shipped (well, not as of late).
The only cars that get a complete inspection cost well over a $100,000, come from overseas and even they are not perfect.
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Actually, not quite how it works. The "plant" cares very much. You would not believe the amount data gathered in the body shop of a modern assembly plant. I used to be able to go on line and check pretty much every car or truck body on any given day. Some operators may not care, true, but many do.
And if you compare GM cars from 15 years ago you'll notice a huge difference in gap and flush measurements. It used to be 5 mm, now it's down to 3.5 nominal gap in many if not all cases. The big issue remains the variation, something Toyota is wonderful at.
Now one big issue in this area is paint quality. A large gripe on Camaros here over the years. Getting a wonderful paint job is actually easy, it's just also very expensive. Audi for example splits the line going into the bake ovens into one of TWO ovens and slows the rate down for a longer/lower temp bake. Look at an Audi paint job sometime and how little orange peel you'll find.
The Camaro has the benefit of being in a Cadillac plant as well.