Toyota Open Day
My partner works for Toyota, and yes, she’s able to get a discount on new Toyota cars. I do believe it’s 22%. Pretty good rating, for a new vehicle. But she always leases a car, and gets a new one every 8-9 months. I have been to her work place before, but it was probably a good 5 years ago, at least. Today was Open day, where the manufacturing plant she works at was open to the public. It was only open to people who work there and their family and friends. And talk about a perfect day weather wise. There was a cool breeze, and the sun was beaming like you wouldn’t believe.
My partner works in assembly as a storesperson. She delivers parts to the line and then other people of course build the cars. They had various parts of the plant open to where you could see how the vehicles are made. At the plant where my partner works, they only make camrys. But you can go into various sections, all the way from the press area, to painting, to sequence, to assembly, which is the last part before the car gets driven off the area. It is so facinating to see how a car is actually built. Kind of creepy watching these HUGE press machines press pieces of metal into car parts. They showed car parts that had not been painted yet, and to think that that is something we drive, it’s flabbergasting. There is one machine that can press 6000 tons in less than 6 seconds. That’s how long it takes to make a “panel” of some sort. They have various presses that make various panels and parts. Then there are so many different layers of paint that is painted on. At the end, where they actually assemble the vehicle, you can see all the parts that go into the vehicle. There are so many different parts and pieces. But now when my partner says “I’m doing struts tonight” or “dry shafts, yuck” I’ll know what she’s talking about.
If you’re ever able to go to a car manufacturing plant, I highly recommend it. It’s just so interesting to see how an actual car is made..pretty much from the pieces of metal to the end result. They don’t have these open days very often. I think it was 10 years since they had the last one. They had an expected 18,000 people, where 6,000 of them were kids. They had showbags (bags with toys and such) for the kids, but they had to go and find the “tokens” before they could get their prize. They got waterbottles, frisbees, pencil pouch, wristbands, and a few other cool things. Kind of makes the day go quicker for the kids, but OMG, the lines to get the tokens. So many kids, I swear. They hand rides and jumping castles as well for the kids, all of which were free. They had hamburgers and sausage rolls and it was just a perfect day for this event.
-current mood- COMFORTABLE
My partner works in assembly as a storesperson. She delivers parts to the line and then other people of course build the cars. They had various parts of the plant open to where you could see how the vehicles are made. At the plant where my partner works, they only make camrys. But you can go into various sections, all the way from the press area, to painting, to sequence, to assembly, which is the last part before the car gets driven off the area. It is so facinating to see how a car is actually built. Kind of creepy watching these HUGE press machines press pieces of metal into car parts. They showed car parts that had not been painted yet, and to think that that is something we drive, it’s flabbergasting. There is one machine that can press 6000 tons in less than 6 seconds. That’s how long it takes to make a “panel” of some sort. They have various presses that make various panels and parts. Then there are so many different layers of paint that is painted on. At the end, where they actually assemble the vehicle, you can see all the parts that go into the vehicle. There are so many different parts and pieces. But now when my partner says “I’m doing struts tonight” or “dry shafts, yuck” I’ll know what she’s talking about.
If you’re ever able to go to a car manufacturing plant, I highly recommend it. It’s just so interesting to see how an actual car is made..pretty much from the pieces of metal to the end result. They don’t have these open days very often. I think it was 10 years since they had the last one. They had an expected 18,000 people, where 6,000 of them were kids. They had showbags (bags with toys and such) for the kids, but they had to go and find the “tokens” before they could get their prize. They got waterbottles, frisbees, pencil pouch, wristbands, and a few other cool things. Kind of makes the day go quicker for the kids, but OMG, the lines to get the tokens. So many kids, I swear. They hand rides and jumping castles as well for the kids, all of which were free. They had hamburgers and sausage rolls and it was just a perfect day for this event.
-current mood- COMFORTABLE
posted by Gaylicious© at Sunday, September 18, 2005
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