The fish that slipped through the net at the 315 party, grilled Toyota, Honda and Nissan, reduced the price increase, and frequent failures

How popular are Japanese cars in China? From the sales ranking in February, you can know a little bit, the best selling compact family car is Nissan Xuanyi, the top four mid-level car sales are Toyota Camry, Honda Accord, Toyota Asia Dragon and Nissan Tianlai, Honda CR-V even squeezed haval H6 off the throne of the sales champion, MPV sales top five also have Toyota Xena and Honda Odyssey two models, it is not an exaggeration to say that Japanese cars are replacing Volkswagen as the new darling of consumers.

When it comes to Japanese cars, the first thing people think of is fuel economy, in fact, people who really understand Japanese cars know that this is not rigorous, the origin of Japanese cars fuel saving is mostly because the excellent performance of small cars such as fit and Zhixuan gives people a preconceived impression, in the field of compact cars and mid-level cars, the lowest fuel consumption models have never been Japanese cars (leaving aside the mix), the German Volkswagen performance is not bad at all, and even the fuel consumption performance of brands such as the American General and Korean Hyundai/Kia is also quite excellent. Owners like Volkswagen's Passat 1.4T version and Kia K5 Kaiku's 1.5T have lower measured fuel consumption than the Camry and Tianlai.

In addition, it is also untenable to say that the Japanese car is durable and durable, and there are few small problems, so let's take a closer look at toyota, Honda and Nissan three car companies to see how deep everyone's "misunderstanding" of Japanese cars is.

Toyota

Some people say that there are only two kinds of hybrids in this world, one is Toyota, one is the other, which is an affirmation of Toyota's hybrid technology, but toyota's proud hybrid models have frequently exposed the problem of increased oil emulsification in the past two years.

Interestingly, In 2019, Toyota in North America widely recalled some of the production of 2.5L hybrid models, the reason is that the engine of the cylinder casting process may be defective, resulting in cooling water leakage into the oil to form an increase in oil emulsification, the solution is to replace the new engine for the owner for free, but in China, Toyota insists that the engine does not have any quality problems, perhaps the domestic production of the engine block does not have water leakage, but the increase in engine oil emulsification is a fact, Toyota's differential treatment inevitably makes the owner unhappy.

In addition, Toyota is "impressive" by the endless price increase behavior of some models, rough statistics, Toyota's mark-up models are Toyota Alpha, Wilfa, Highlander, SUPRA, Crown Land, Xena and Lexus ES/NX/RX/LX series and LM300h. Among them, LM300h to the single car price increase of 350,000 feats of seconds to kill a number of models, take the guide price of 1.464 million yuan 2020 300h four-seat royal edition as an example, counting the price increase, its terminal landing price is far more than 2 million, compared with the parameters you will find that it is a hardcover Toyota Alpha, and in Japan, the price of Alpha is similar to the Buick GL8, but it is packaged into a million-level "luxury car" when it comes to China, and the profits can be seen.

Toyota likes hunger marketing, Lexus ES200 and Toyota Saina are among the representatives, both models are known for price increases, Toyota claims that inventory is insufficient and production capacity is limited, in fact, there are rows of existing cars lying in the warehouse, and it is no secret that the speed of lifting depends on the number of price increases.

Nissan

Japanese car companies like to use CVT gearbox, which is the representative of nissan, in addition to a few models such as Tuda with AT transmission, Nissan's entire series almost all use CVT transmission from Jatco, in the early years Ofsan's CVT gearbox quality is good, with fuel saving and smooth characteristics by many consumers welcome.

Since the domestic production, Nissan's CVT gearbox quality is deteriorating, more and more problems, mainly manifested as abnormal sound, abnormal bearing wear, setbacks, slippage and lack of power, etc., the reason is that when the vehicle is driving, there is abnormal wear between the steel belt and the pressure cylinder, and the iron filings generated are stuck in the oil channel and the solenoid valve after entering the oil duct through the filter, resulting in the failure of the solenoid valve, and the problem will erupt in a concentrated manner over time, which involves the use of materials after domestic production. After all, the same gearbox has no problem in Japan.

There is also a sound theory that the assembly process of the Nissan CVT transmission main engine factory produced in China and the level of the workers are uneven, and the quality control is difficult to control, and even the sound of the gearbox assembled by different masters is different.

Whether it is a material problem or an assembly problem is our conjecture, Nissan officials have been blind to the problem of failure, so far there has been no clear reply, if there is a problem in the car outside the warranty, the owner can only bear the high maintenance costs.

Honda

In 2017, the use of Honda 1.5T engine CR-V, Civic, Guandao and UR-V and other models of large-scale oil increase and emulsification problems, Honda official network of the first response is to hold a press conference, in front of the public media for the owner to express the increase in oil should be all normal phenomena, the solution is to the car oil level gauge is higher than the limit of 30mm of the car completely free replacement of oil, not long after, Honda officially again declared for the occurrence of oil increase in the phenomenon of models to increase the warranty period.

The majority of car owners are not satisfied with this result, along with the owners of the complaints and reports more and more, the Quality Inspection Bureau also intervened in the matter to carry out research, and finally in the intervention of the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine Honda finally admitted that the car engine has design shortcomings, and applied to the Quality Inspection Bureau for a recall, the recall of the vehicle to replace the air conditioning controller module and heat pipe radiator sewer pipe assembly, and upgrade the ECU software, in order to inhibit the increase in the oil level of the car, so far, the vigorous Honda "oil production" problem has been solved.

In this incident, we saw the perfunctory side of Honda, and also realized that Honda's engine also had an unreliable side.

In addition, Honda's third-generation IMMD hybrid system produced before September 2019 has also been exposed by netizens as having design defects, according to the feedback of the owner, Honda's third-generation IMMD hybrid model will encounter the phenomenon of transmission light after driving to 50,000 kilometers, and the dashboard will appear "transmission system failure, performance may be reduced" warning.

This failure was caused by a defect in the design of the E-CVT transmission, and the solenoid valve that controlled the direct drive gear clutch of the engine jammed, making the clutch unable to engage normally, and eventually causing the engine to be unable to use the direct drive mode during medium and high-speed cruise. At this time, the engine can only charge the battery and cannot directly drive the vehicle, and the dashboard transmission fault light is turned on synchronously.

Some industry insiders analyzed that in order to reduce costs, most of the parts have been localized, and factors such as process or quality control have led to the design life of the parts that do not meet the standard is the main reason for this failure, due to the small proportion of sales of Honda hybrid models in the early years, the fault feedback is not as much as the increase in oil, and naturally there is no response from Honda.

The problems of Japanese cars do not stop there, such as the noise of Mazda Artez and Toyota Corolla, the cracking of the Camry's instrument panel and the oil leakage of the half shaft, the engine leakage of the Honda Accord and the lag of the steering system, the failure of the Nissan Tianlai car and so on have a considerable amount of feedback, even if the sales are counted, the failure rate of the Japanese car is not low, and the root cause is nothing more than the reduction and poor materials. Over the years, we have indeed had too many "misunderstandings" about Japanese cars, what do you think about this? Welcome to leave a message in the comment area to discuss!