Recent content by chry3d

I worked at the Auburn Hills complex back in the early 2000's The building was a massive complex of cube farms. I worked in the East wing. I hear now they are using some form of open floor plan. I am glad I am retired from there now. I liked my personal little cubicle. :-)

I just noticed that they published the 2025 code guides for the WL. These are used by dealers and corporate lessees. They still list the V6 as the standard engine and it appears identical to the 2024. Looks like they will continue to build the older version and label it a 2025. Perhaps they...

As someone who worked in IT management when Daimler came in, I can tell you they were the absolute worst of all the companies that bought us out. It was literally the German way or nothing. We bent over backward to flip tens of thousands of internal IP addresse to those owned by Daimler. If...

The maker of Jeep will idle its plant in Belvidere, Illinois, at the end of February in a "necessary action," citing the increasing costs from electric vehicles and other industry disruptions in its decision. The Stellantis NV plant that produces the Jeep Cherokee crossover west of Chicago...

If there is a 2023 Cherokee, we know where it will NOT be built: Stellantis to idle Illinois Jeep plant indefinitely in February (Detroit news, today)

As a retiree I can tell you this has been going on for some years as the security to get an employee purchase number has been little to none. They are only now requiriuing us to implement passwords on our accounts to get a purchase number. About time.

I worked at that plant back in the late 70's. I was a large press operator. Local 1264. I remember when I started how scary the large presses were. Once we were cleaning up the place for an inspection and the overhead crane would lift up a large die and people would walk under it and clean...

I hope this place is better than allpar. 38 year Chrysler retiree here.