The launch of Fisker Ocean has been encountered many problemsand those problems now Paired in different ways that makes things worse for the owner. See, problems mean repairs, but parts shortages mean those repairs can take a long time to actually complete – unless you have a “graveyard” of parts pre-production to smash into customers’ cars.
Business insider spoke to multiple workers at (or formerly at) Fisker who said they pulled parts from the vehicle “graveyard” to get customers back on the road. That graveyard contains not only idle production cars but also pre-production models that were never intended to be sold. From Business insider:
To address the backlog of customer service requests and the shortage of available parts, Fisker technicians have been removing parts from what some call “donor cars,” includes production and pre-production vehicles Fisker Ocean is located at the company’s facility in La Palma, California, three current and five former Fisker employees said. The workers spoke to BI on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak about company matters. Business Insider also saw several photos of Fisker Ocean vehicles missing parts that sources said were used on customer vehicles.
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A current Fisker employee with knowledge of the matter said technicians have had to remove parts from other cars to handle customer service requests in about 10% to 15% of repairs. errors over the past few months, especially for customers near the company’s La Palma location.
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Typically, parts are sourced from the back area at the La Palma site, which has a line of pre-production vehicles that some call a “graveyard,” five sources told BI. Pre-production cars are produced as prototypes and are essentially beta versions of the car that are not intended for customer use – just testing and demonstration; The production vehicle is the final product that the customer is delivered. Two current employees and one former worker said several vehicles at the Fisker Oceans location were returned by customers.
Having driven many pre-production vehicles in this line of work, I have yet to see one with parts that I wouldn’t trust on a production vehicle. That said, I’m not pushing pre-production yet Fisker – maybe things will work differently in a company where even the means of production are not completely perfect.
However, this raises a much more important question: What should this process be called? The cars aren’t actually zombies, but the parts are said to have come back from the dead to repair the living. It could be a Frankenstein situation, a collection of dead parts forming something alive, or even something frankly Christian. If you think of the integration of parts as a form of consumption, this process can fall under “So he who eats my flesh will also live because of me.”
