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CT scans of BYD car parts

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Re: CT scans of BYD car parts

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Yes but specifically, in this article, the passage is written about a harness connector on a door window switch module as follows: >Fourteen pins in two parallel rows carry every signal this panel produces to the rest of the vehicle. Automotive connectors are among the most common failure points in modern cars: corrosion, fretting, and thermal cycling work on these joints over years of use. One connector failure on a…

In addition I'll give one more criticism: Above that reads this bit: >Its driver door panel consolidates mirror adjustment, mirror fold, door locks, all four window controls, and child locks into a single networked module. That consolidation exemplifies BYD's vertical integration favoring fewer subassemblies, each designed in-house and dropped into place, with firmware determining how any of it behaves. Integrated do…

Appreciated. I guess I was so impressed by the CT scans so I let my guard down and you are right, the article could be written a lot better.

Re: CT scans of BYD car parts

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It's worse than that. Trump's tariffs have knee-capped North American auto companies right when they needed to be upping their game. The auto sector is tightly integrated across Canada, the U.S., and Mexico. Or was... Now there's tariff's on every part and frame that crosses a border. The American plan seems to be to put up a wall and force Americans to buy domestic while nobody else in the world buys American cars.

The lada and movkvisch of car brands with people willing to cross the wall to buy BYD in Mexico

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