Declining quality of consumer-grade products – 2009 fridge compressor autopsy

Re:Declining quality of consumer-grade products – 2009 fridg... by hn_go_brrrrr on Sunday August 14, 2022 @08:52PM (#32464646)

I hadn't heard about this, thanks for the link. I did a little digging and it doesn't appear be quite as clean cut as that article says. For instance, check out https://www.theautochannel.com/news/press/date/19970422/pres... (a CR press release), where they mention internal Suzuki documents acknowledging the rollover issue.

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Re:Declining quality of consumer-grade products – 2009 fridg... by alamortsubite on Sunday August 14, 2022 @09:44PM (#32464986)

I've read the text of the lawsuit. As you mention, this is a press release, so I'm highly skeptical of it. Video documentation of CR's manipulation of the tests is on YouTube. It's wild stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2Bv9WL3vpY

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Re:Declining quality of consumer-grade products – 2009 fridg... by hn_go_brrrrr on Sunday August 14, 2022 @11:52PM (#32465707)

Best guess? CR fabricated their test results because they couldn't figure out how to replicate the real-life problems on their test course. Which is to say, both sides are in the wrong.

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Re:Declining quality of consumer-grade products – 2009 fridg... by delusional on Monday August 15, 2022 @03:28AM (#32466830)

Every review site "fabricates their test reults" thats the whole point. You create a test that documents your assistent.

The ruling on an appeal makes the argument better than i could.

> [The] først theory is that CU know it was probably lying because its employees tries to make the samurai flip and we're happy when they suceeded. The second is that CU purposely avoided the truth by failing to address a potential source of experimental error. Neither of these theories withstands serious scrutiny

The opinion end up concluding that the entire reason for changing the test setup, along with a description of the changes, was present in the article.

What a non-story.

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