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Originally Posted by Lee Stewart
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I love seeing the paperwork strewn all over the car.
Those are the inspection tickets for the various sub assemblies, all coming together at the end. They gradually get added together and stapled to create a "packet" that follows the car through the repair and shipping process.
Vehicles could be “flagged” for various repairs by the way the vehicle was parked (ie, facing towards the building or facing away; hood up or partially opened) and where the repair ticket was stuffed: ie, jammed in the vent window might mean one thing, stuck in the door handle something else, and stuffed under the windshield wiper something else.
God forbid some young engineering student get out there and put the ticket back in the wrong spot, messing up their system. Hell hath no fury....
Vehicles can sometimes get lost back there and then turn up at the next model change when the lot gets thinned out and the backlog worked down.
If you drive past Flint Assembly today it still looks like that (different trucks, of course).
Vehicles are still built today with pieces of paper hanging off the front.
K