#germancar1 #gdr #trabi Trabant stories part 4, here are 5 short stories
Herbert tells us how two valves could come about on a Trabant bike. An employee was apparently too scared to dispose of the bike, so he quickly figured that two valves had to be put in there.
The second story explains why station wagons can rust faster, even though everything is the same as the Trabant sedan. Can't you come up with something like that, that was everyday life in the GDR.
You can read a small excerpt from this video here:
A story, not from the body shop, about which the whole Sachsenring Automobilbau Zwickau once laughed.
A family picked up their Trabant from our yard after a twelve-year wait, and when there was a Trabant in the yard, it was always a bit dusty.
Then they went home, parked the car in front of the garage, washed it and cleaned it, and that's when the man found out that this one doesn't just have one valve, but two. He immediately called the company, I have a bike with two valves. Nobody wanted to believe that.
Our head of control immediately sent one off with two different bikes because he didn't know what he had on it and fixed the defect. Then we researched how this could happen...
So I also built the front wall for the Trabant station wagon, it was the same, nothing else is there. So I sent them to Meerane, had to send 150 front walls every day and if there were still problems, I always went there myself because I knew my way around and started looking at the parts in the warehouse or reworking them. That's when I noticed that the front walls were always stored in a kind of horse stable. Brick floor, it was always so damp that they rust, ie rust film. They then basically got the parts, poured them into a pickling bath, in the truest sense of the word, and we treated them like raw eggs because they were vulnerable and they tipped them off the Multicar into a pickling bath, i.e. the sheet metal parts, and then that was it pickled and rinsed with hot water, but you can rinse as you like in these gaps between welded, spot-welded sheet metal, gaps appear more and more easily and you can't get them clean anymore.
That was a big lack of station wagons, not because the front wall was no good, but because they treated it wrong there, right up to the end, so to the end from the Trabant 601 onwards, so to speak.
- 2 valves on the wheel - everyone laughed about it 0
- Front wall station wagon rusty - Sheet metal stored incorrectly 1:30
- Air intake - Wrong billing from supervisor 5:22
- Buy a Trabant, pay attention to where - everything can rust 8:39
- Side window rear panel torn - Wrong billing 15:29
7 сен 2024
