Two days ago, Lynk & Co 01 exploded in the car circle, and the evaluation of "overturning", "questioning" and "false publicity" flocked to Lynk & Co 01 and pushed Nicker 01 to the cusp of the storm in a short period of time. Mainly because some netizens said that the body steel of Lynk & Co 01 has been reduced, and even suspected that Lynk & Co 01 false propaganda, such remarks can be described as a stone to stir up thousands of waves.
The material posted by the owner of Lynk & Co 01 shows that at the new Lynk & Co 01 conference, the presentation of the A-pillar and the front of the upper beam, the rear of the upper beam and the lower beam in the official data is uniformly rendered as red, that is, it represents the highest strength (the major automobile manufacturers in the industry use red to indicate the highest strength of steel). At the press conference, the official promotion of Lynk & Co 01 reached 73.2% of the comprehensive high-strength steel utilization rate, and the global implementation of a unified standard, which can be seen in the on-site map of the conference and the manual of Lynk & Co 01.
Source: Owner complaint information
However, after media testing, it was found that the strength of the upper beam of Lynk & Co 01 was very different, and it did not reach the consistency of the strength before and after the previous publicity. At this time, the strength map of the body structure of the official website Lynk & Co 01 has also quietly changed, that is, the rendering color of the rear of the upper beam has changed from red to yellow. Therefore, the owner questioned the steel strength suspected of reducing the allocation and false publicity, and launched complaints on multiple channels.
Prior to this, the "Big Bang of Understanding Cars" program of The Emperor of Understanding Cars dismantled the body of Lynk & Co 01, and dismantled the lowest model of Lynk & Co 01. Among them, in terms of the strength of the body material, chedi has made a division of steel with different strengths. In terms of specific parts, the two main structures of the A-column of Lynk & Co 01 are A-grade steel, and the tensile strength of the measured two-layer structure exceeds 1300 MPa, although the measured data does not reach the standard of S-grade steel, but the two-layer material is close to the numerical range of S-grade steel. The middle layer of the B-pillar is made of A-grade steel, the inner layer is made of C-grade steel, and the C-column and D-pillar are all D-grade steel. The side beam part, the upper and lower side beams of Lynk & Co 01, except for the front of the upper beam using grade A steel, the rest of the part is C grade steel. This can be used as a reference.
After the owner raised questions, Lynk & Co issued a statement on January 19, 2022, in which it was proposed that there was no specification for the use of the diagram because there was no industry standard, which means that the color does not represent the intensity, and the consumer mistakenly believes that the intensity is high. However, car owners do not think that it is the misunderstanding of consumers, but Lynk & Co deliberately misleads consumers.
Lynk & Co Responded: "The new Lynk & Co 01 is a model sold globally by Lynk & Co, currently selling 01 fuel and 01 PHEV models in China, selling 01 PHEV and 01 HEV models in seven European countries (Sweden, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Spain, italy), and Kuwait selling 01 fuel models, in which the body structure of the same powertrain model is completely the same and will not be distinguished by different sales countries."
To this end, some car owners have put forward a series of evidence to support it. Evidence 1: Lynk & Co 05 is another model of the Lynk & Co brand released before the release of the global Lynk & Co 01, and there are indications of the color corresponding to the type and strength of the steel at the conference, and the structural diagram on the official website is the same.
Evidence two: Lynk & Co 03 is another model of the Lynk & Co brand released earlier than Lynk & Co 05, and the color corresponding to the color marked in the structural diagram on the official website is also consistent with the type of steel at the press conference. Based on the above evidence, supported by the schematic diagram of the steel structure and strength corresponding to the structural schematic diagram used in the early models, the owner believes that the promotion of the global Lynk & Co 01 is deliberately misleading to consumers.
Regarding the owner's point out that the strength of Lynk & Co 01 steel is inconsistent with the publicity, Lynk & Co officials said, "Because there is no unified standard in the body structure indication, the country currently has no unified standard, and Lynk & Co does not have a unified indication specification, so the body structure diagram used by different departments or different scenes of Lynk & Co is also inconsistent." For example, the new Lynk & Co 01 uses a variety of schematic methods such as "Five-color Logo Body-in-White Body Structure Schematic Diagram" and "Six-Color Logo Body Steel Structure Schematic Diagram" (which is consistent with the first Lynk & Co 01) in different online and offline scenes. In this regard, the doubts caused to the owners of the car, Lynk & Co said "deeply apologetics". In addition, Lynk & Co said that it will "comprehensively check and sort out and continue to improve the specifications of this work in the whole brand".
The implication is that Lynk & Co officials do not believe that there is false publicity, but because of the problem caused by the inconsistent standards of the steel structure of the body. However, for this official interpretation of Lynk & Co, many car owners do not buy it, for example, the response document only mentions "structural consistency", but some car owners believe that "structural consistency" does not mean "material consistency".
Things are still fermenting, how about the follow-up, let the bullets fly for a while, understand the brother for the time being do not evaluate this.