AC Delco problems

[Mr. T]

I heard yesterday that AC-Delco might be filing for bankruptcy soon. Is bankruptcy really on the horizon for AC-Delco? What have you guys heard?

[Jeff Murphy]

That's nothin! I heard that GM is selling GMAC!! Man this thing is getting crazy!

[SamLBInj]

I know the dealers are really crying about sales..

[Mr. T]

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That's nothin! I heard that GM is selling GMAC!! Man this thing is getting crazy!

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A GM car salesman told me a few months back that China or Japan might buy out GM. How lovely! http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbsdown.gif http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbsdown.gif

[SamLBInj]

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That's nothin! I heard that GM is selling GMAC!! Man this thing is getting crazy!

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A GM car salesman told me a few months back that China or Japan might buy out GM. How lovely! http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbsdown.gif http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbsdown.gif

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Gung Ho!

[John Brown]

It was Delphi that was looking for bankruptcy court protection.

Just down the road a piece, in Kokomo Indiana.

[TDW]

The news here tonight announced that AC will no longer make spark plugs here. They have been made here for over 100 years.

[markjohnson]

That spark plug plug comment is stomach tightening. Can you get more American than an AC spark plug?

[Chevy454]

Moparts heard at one of his parts man "pow wows" that Champion has been making the AC Delco plugs for a few years now...which is exactly why I run NGK's...

[JoeG]

OK--Everybody--BYE--BYE--Miss AMERICAN PIE Drove my Nissan to the levy----

[indyjps]

i work @ the gm stamping plant in Indianapolis and the Delphi deal hits pretty close to home. UAW guys are getting pretty nervous around here.

[SamLBInj]

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The news here tonight announced that AC will no longer make spark plugs here. They have been made here for over 100 years.

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Hey Tony, How many people are going to lose their jobs because of that? http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif

[TDW]

Sam..They won't say yet. News figures about 1000. The Local Union for AC figures for every AC job lost, it affects 6 non GM workers. That will be another big hit for Flint.

[SamLBInj]

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Sam..They won't say yet. News figures about 1000. The Local Union for AC figures for every AC job lost, it affects 6 non GM workers. That will be another big hit for Flint.

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That really sucks http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbsdown.gif

[TDW]

Newspaper today says 300 jobs gone by Dec, another 100 by July. Looks like they are going to close all operations in Flint. Internal memo was leaked to the Detroit Free Press.

[Keith Tedford]

I feel that GM thumbed their nose at customers and their problems for too long. In the late '70s and early '80s friends made a killing doing cam changes in 305s. It was a big problem with no help from GM. This is only one problem that customers got stuck with. Now that GM is building some quality cars, customers are too gun shy to buy....no matter what J. D. Powers says. I wonder if GM can hold out long enough to get the ship turned around. I hope so because I work there and see the efforts people on the floor put into building a quality product. I still think we should have a retro '69 Chevelle in the mix. With the Corvette 427 we could even have a COPO Chevelle. I'd be the first to put in an order for one. It would have to be a six speed. I'm sure that Bob, Al, and others wouldn't be far behind. http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/3gears.gif

[JoeG]

AC was an American institution!!!!--- --I just hope it's not gonna take a foreign entities foresight to turn GM around--I'd hate to see the day we'd have to pay an import tax on a COPO Chevelle made in Japan--------

[Mr70]

AC Delco Advertising memorabila is on a price spike up over this news.

[Belair62]

I'm sitting here watching a piece on the news about Chinese product market share....they just showed a nice wooden sign that says "Made in America" turn it over and..you guessed it...made in China...we have lost 18,000 jobs to China alone this year they said...most textile production and much electronics there now..

[Keith Tedford]

Amazing what they can do with a 3 billion captive work force. Hard to compete with that.

[JoeG]

Yeah, but they'll still have to eat and after all our industry is gone we'll still be the Fast-Food leaders of the World-- http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif

[RPOZ26]

I'm a GM tech and things are slow at the dealership were I work. I can't feed my family doing warranty work. It pay's half or less of what a customer would pay. Ed

[ktownkid]

Pardon me for a second please......

Belair, Friend, You said the magic word... textiles. Everything is pouring in from China and the mid-east. I live in a town that was the largest manufacturer of textiles in the world... not just the USA. Not anymore though... the wrecking ball is knocking everything down that's been there for a hundred years. I guess I shouldn't complain because this is happening all over America in all different types of businesses. But I always have one question and it's the same question over and over... and that is... how can a nation that has to import all of it's things be stronger than a nation that doesn't?

I just heard on CNN about the bird flu vaccine... (not human to human)... production is very low... guess what?... we don't make it here... it all has to be imported. Now that's a perfect example of what I was talking about.

ktownkid

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[kwhizz]

I just heard on CNN about the bird flu vaccine... (not human to human)... production is very low... guess what?... we don't make it here... it all has to be imported. Now that's a perfect example of what I was talking about.

ktownkid


You can thank the Trial Lawyers for chasing the Vaccine manufacturers and other successful businesses to go either out of business or out of the country because of the Litigation Mentality that is now the norm of Society......I would like to write a book about Lawyers and would call it " The Rapeing of America".........Everyone can see what is happening with Health Insurance today......This is the end result of the unchecked Litigation Mentality that is now the norm.................just my $.02

Ken http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/flag.gif

[firstgenaddict]

http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/worship.gif Ken you are right on sir!
The Government over there knows what they are doing...setting China up to be the dominating manufacturing center and when the products that they make hurt mame and kill someone ...just see how far the trial lawyers will get...
The trade imbalance is so lopsided that it costs me $435.00 per container to ship 23 short tons from Charleston SC to Shanghai China. $350 of that is the handling charge in Shanghai! $85 in ocean freight ... To come back it'll cost$4000 though!!!

[ANDY M]

If Pittsburgh can make a comeback, any place can.
Diversify the local economy, roll up your sleves, and get back to work.
This is the American way. http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/flag.gif We have workers, both salaried and hourly, that can outproduce the pants off of any Chinese (or Japanese) worker. Why do you think that Honda, Toyota, etc. came to this country. http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif
This is the land of opportunity. http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif
Jump at them any chance you can. http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggthumpup.gif If you don't know an opportunity when you see it,
KEEP JUMPING. http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/headbang.gif

[SamLBInj]

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This is the American way. http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/flag.gif We have workers, both salaried and hourly, that can outproduce the pants off of any Chinese (or Japanese) worker. Why do you think that Honda, Toyota, etc. came to this country. http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif

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I was told this past weekend that GM? is running in overdrive on production as a future UAW strike is looming? Any info on this? looks like the workers should be looking at a cut in pay to save their jobs instead of going on strike otherwise they better start brushing up on there chineese.. http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/no.gif