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Aston Martin recalls 17,590
« on: February 05 2014, 05:37:53 PM »
Aston Martin is recalling most of its sports cars built since late 2007 after discovering a Chinese sub-supplier was using counterfeit plastic material in a part supplied to the luxury sports carmaker.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/05/us-autos-astonmartin-recall-idUSBREA141B220140205
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Re: Aston Martin recalls 17,590
« Reply #1 on: February 06 2014, 08:19:19 PM »
What the hell is "counterfeit plastic"?  And how does a broken accelerator cause a crash?  (even though there hasn't been one)
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Re: Aston Martin recalls 17,590
« Reply #2 on: February 06 2014, 09:11:21 PM »
When you make plastic parts you start with plastic pellets whose properties are specified by the  customer. Likely these were substituted by "someone".
Asian factories tend to operate thusly - If you haven't caught me its your own fault.
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