Rebirth 99 to become a car giant.

"Mr. Cao, talking about Volkswagen, there is really some news closely related to Spring City Volkswagen during this period."

"I heard that Volkswagen is also discussing countermeasures internally."

Yu Yu is considered the most well-informed person in the Chinese automobile industry.

She is well aware of the situation of many other car manufacturers.

Especially for some gossip news, if you ask her for consultation, you will most likely be able to get some news.

This time Cao Yang wanted to stumble Volkswagen, so asking Yu Yu was obviously the most appropriate thing to do.

"Oh?"

Cao Yang became interested immediately, "Tell me more about it!"

Although Volkswagen has been improving its relationship with Nanshan Automobile Group in the past year, things in the mall are not as simple as black and white.

From the perspective of the entire Chinese market, Volkswagen's sales in China have re-entered a stage of rapid growth, which is obviously not in line with the overall interests of Nanshan Automobile Group.

After all, even if Spring City Volkswagen and Modu Volkswagen cooperate with Nanshan Automobile Group, their scale is far smaller than that of other independent brands.

For example, Nanshan Automobile Group may earn 5,000 yuan by selling a Changan Automobile.

But it may be difficult to earn even 500 yuan from selling a Volkswagen.

After all, they have their own supply chain, which is not something you can easily change.

"On March 2012, 3, the new Sagitar was launched, using a lower-cost torsion beam non-independent rear suspension, while the previous Sagitar used independent suspension."

"Since the second half of 2012, car owners have reported that the paint on the rear suspension of the vehicle is peeling off and rusting, there are abnormal noises while driving, and the rear suspension is directly broken on the highway."

"Car owners began to realize the problem and began to gather and defend their rights, but Spring City Volkswagen responded that this situation is an exception."

"Individual dealers responded by replacing car owners with new rear suspensions, but this failed to solve the problem. The Sagitar suddenly became the model with the most complaints."

"On September 2013, 9, the 5 Sagitar was launched, still using a torsion beam non-independent rear suspension."

“However, in May 2014, without upgrading the model or changing the model, the Sagitar quietly changed the non-independent suspension to a multi-link independent suspension, and Volkswagen did not make any publicity, and its performance was extremely low-key, which aroused the concern of consumers. suspicion."

Since Cao Yang is interested, Yu Yu must give a good introduction to the situation.

She had already guessed what Cao Yang probably wanted to do.

Anyway, Autohome has cooperated with Nanshan Automobile Group to do similar things in the past many years.

"On July 2014, 7, Spring City Volkswagen made an official statement, clearly stating that the Sagitar rear suspension fracture was not a batch problem of the product, but that individual cases were amplified by people with 'ulterior motives'."

"On August 8 this year, the General Administration launched a defect investigation, interviewed Spring City Volkswagen, and carried out user return visits, on-site inspections, and defect technical analysis."

"As a result, the attitude of the public in Spring City has begun to change."

"There are many Sagitar car owners on the Autohome forum who are constantly criticizing Spring City Volkswagen. We are also in contact with some car owners."

"Because this matter seems to be getting serious, I heard that Spring City Volkswagen is preparing to recall the Sagitar and several other models in the past few days."

"Then the repair plan is said to be very funny."

Yu Yu said while observing Cao Yang's reaction.

If the latter is very interested, then she must continue to talk carefully.

"Is it a patch?"

After hearing what Yu Yu said, Cao Yang was naturally impressed.

At that time, Volkswagen's "patching" maintenance program caused quite a stir.

Unexpectedly, there is still a similar solution now.

It seems that if you don’t seek death, you won’t die.

"Mr. Cao, your description of 'patching' is so apt."

Yu Yu was stunned for a moment, and based on what he learned about the situation, he immediately realized what "patch" meant.

She was even planning to arrange for someone to compile relevant articles. After Spring City Volkswagen officially announced the recall plan, she would spread the word "patching".

The impact will definitely be huge by then.

"The news I heard is that Spring City Volkswagen's recall measure this time is to install a 'metal lining'."

"It is said that they internally believe that the metal lining will increase the critical longitudinal load of the suspension. If the rear axle trailing arm breaks, the metal lining can ensure the driving stability of the vehicle and will emit a continuous warning noise."

At this point, Yu Yu couldn't help laughing.

This was the first time in so many years that she had heard of such a funny recall response plan.

Continuous warning noise?

What is this ghost?

"If Spring City Volkswagen really adopts this recall measure, then I think you can specially arrange vehicles for testing."

"According to Volkswagen, after the longitudinal arm body is broken, the added liner will produce a continuous warning noise."

"But I think after the liner is installed, if the trailing arm body breaks, there may indeed be a discernible and continuous warning noise when driving on bad roads."

"But most consumers are driving on good roads, so it is not easy to detect at this time and cannot effectively serve as a warning."

"Then there is still a risk of losing control of the vehicle due to failure to detect the breakage of the rear axle trailing arm body and the liner breaking again."

"Anyway, we can't let go of the people in Spring City easily."

Obviously, Cao Yang wanted to take this opportunity to suppress the rising sales trend of Spring City Volkswagen and Magic City Volkswagen.

Although it is impossible to directly suppress Volkswagen's sales because of this incident, it will definitely have a certain impact.

After other car companies see these opportunities, they will not be idle.

By then, Volkswagen will become the target of public criticism, and it will be very difficult for sales to continue to increase.

Even after such a setback, the Sagitar's sales will inevitably decline significantly, and Spring City Volkswagen's sales will inevitably be affected.

"Mr. Cao, in addition to making a fuss about Sagitar's recall plan, I think it can actually be further derived and come up with something specious."

"Many Volkswagen models are platform cars, or have various special relationships with each other."

"As long as we ruin the reputation of the Sagitar, we can completely ruin the reputation of other models by giving everyone the opportunity to educate everyone about the relationship between the domestic models of Spring City Volkswagen and Magic Volkswagen."

If the boss wants to cause trouble, Yu Yu will definitely go all out.

It is inevitable to take the initiative to propose some new tricks.

"Be specific!"

Cao Yang didn't fully understand what Yu Yu meant, so he asked.

"Volkswagen's passenger cars are basically jumping on several platforms."

"The most well-known is the Jetta. In 1991, the second-generation model of the overseas version of the Jetta was first introduced in China. The Jetta introduced at that time was authentic and became one of the 'three old ones' in people's mouth because of its reliable performance. But when the third-generation model was updated overseas, it was not followed.”