My window sticker was just made available (5/11/10)... but I have a build date of 5/14/10 (Friday)

While I am ecstatic about my baby being born soon, I can't help wonder if this might be a problem in the future...

I've had one vehicle made on a Monday ('03 Saturn Ion 3 sedan) and misc. bolts were rolling around in the doors and floor as well as other issues... I've heard of other horror stories of lemons made on Fridays (you rarely hear someone brag about how well their car is made and add in there "BTW... it was made on a Monday/Friday").
I understand that assembly line workers are human, heck everyone can have a case of the Mondays or be overly anxious to get out of work early on a Friday ('self included). I'm making this post not as a slam of UAW, but to see how many members have had Friday builds that were problem free (not counting TSBs and such since those are across the entire line)

 

Personally I think that whole concept is crap. Based on a five day work week that would mean that a full 40% of the vehicles produced are either Monday or Friday builds. So in theory 2 of every 5 vehicles are problem cars. If you are going to go that route in thinking what about Tuesday golf leagues, that would make Wednesdays bad, you can fight with the wife, kids, boss on any day of the week, etc.. The car is either going to be a good one or it is not and build day won't matter. Lemons are cars that can't be fixed. If a sloppy worker did sloppy work that is fixable, just redo the work they didn't do properly. Lemons come from unfixable computer, electrical, mechanical problems that aren't usually due to assembly errors. Let them build you a great car, quit worrying and enjoy it.

 

People building the Mustang know they're working on something special. Does that make you feel better?

 

what about the sun-thurs work weeks and mon-fri workweeks?
i would surmise that there are employees overlapping on those critical days to buoy reliable workmanship

 

I am in the same situation, window sticker today & build date on Friday. I have never paid any attention to the build dates (day) of the new cars I have bought but have never had any issues with them. Over the years I have had 11 new cars so some were likely built on Monday or Friday.

I am just glad to finally see some light at the end of the tunnel! I ordered mine on Feb 10.

 

My car was built on a Tuesday. That's the day AFTER Monday and 3 days before Friday. With it occurring so close to both days, it has to be crap.

(Chicken Little just ran past my cube... something about falling skies?)

Really? Is this ALL we can think of to worry about? C'mon... let it go. I'm with Paul.

 

My 08 Edge must have been built on a Fri because of the problems i have with it. I knew there had a to a answer somewhere.

 

The quality control used by Ford is absolutely incredible. One of my students, with his dad (who is the local Ford general manager) visited the Mustang plant and saw incidents where one person could stop the line if they felt quality was conpromised. They were extremely impressed with the QC efforts of Ford. I certainly felt better when he told me about it.

 

Robots don't know what day it is.

 

Only about 75% of the time, the rest of the time they're building Mazda 6's.

 

Hey, the good news is that it will probably sit in Area 51 long enough for them to resolve any issues it may have!

 

Cancel your order, for sure.....

 

The day of the week it was made shouldn't be a deal breaker IMO. Not everyone is going to be worthless on Mondays/Fridays, and they've pushed quality. It's really more of an old wife's tale. My great grandmother said the same thing.

 

Not sure that matters, my 2011 had to have a quick service call because someone forgot to conenct the 12V power point in the console.

 

It takes 2 to 3 days from start to finish to build a car so Monday or Friday
shouldnt have any bearing. Only 20% of the cars start on tues to eliminate
the mon/fri syndrome.

 

fwiw mine was built on Wed and it is flawless. But I wouldn't be concerned.

 

Great now I have to sell my 2007 cuz it was built on a Monday....

 

Uh, oh- Friday build. You'd better give that car to me. I'll take all of that trouble off of your hands.

 

where did you hear that? ..it takes one day to build the mustang

 

No. Special Ed maybe. Either that or the GT500 is "nothing special". Mine had numerous quality issues. ALL related to LAZY *** WORKERS, none were engineering issues. I have evidence of retardation in the paint/finish department, striping department, interior assembly department, body panel installation department, you name it. UAW are tards. I am talking MAJOR "I don't give a ****" type attitudes. Not little nit picks.