Rebirth of the Industrial Tycoon

  Chapter 26 Broken Imported Car

  In front of Li Weidong is a white car with a boxy front, boxy lights, and a silver crown logo in the middle of the boxy air intake grille.

  This is the seventh-generation Toyota Crown.

   "You can see this old gun in China! It's quite new." Li Weidong leaned over, circled the body, and then looked at the cockpit through the glass.

  "It's still a right-hand drive car. This should be the version sold in RB, not the model Toyota uses for export." Li Weidong secretly said in his heart.

RB cars are right-hand drive cars, but since most of the world’s cars are left-hand drive cars, most of the cars exported by RB are also left-hand drive cars. Especially since the 1980s, the United States became RB. In its main market, a large number of RB cars are exported to the United States, and RB produces more left-hand drive vehicles than right-hand drive vehicles.

  In China in the early 1980s, the management of imported cars was not standardized. When importing cars, they did not choose whether they were right-handed or left-handed cars. As long as there were cars, they would inevitably be imported into some right-handed cars.

  Until the country established an automobile industry import and export company, China's automobile imports began to be gradually regulated.

  Although this seventh-generation Crown is a right-hand drive car, it still has to abide by China’s traffic laws and drive on the right when it is on the road. For drivers of right-hand drive vehicles, it is still somewhat unaccustomed to drive on the right.

  Li Weidong also wanted to open the car door and enter the cab to take a look, but a voice stopped Li Weidong.

   "That comrade, what are you doing!"

  Li Weidong looked at the voice, and a 30-year-old auto repair worker was walking over.

   "Comrade, I just look at this car." Li Weidong replied.

  The auto repair worker saw that Li Weidong was a young face, so he couldn’t help but ask: “Who are you? That department? What are you doing in our repair shop?”

  "I came to visit and study from the Qinghe District Transportation Company." Li Weidong paused, and then said: "You also know about it, Director Wei. He asked me to watch it casually in the workshop."

Li Weidong moved out of Wei Bin, the director of the repair workshop, and the auto repair workers were not good at stopping him. He looked at Li Weidong with a cold face and said, "Then you can look good. rise."

   "Don't worry, I am also a car mechanic, so I can't break it." Li Weidong replied.

"Auto mechanic? Look at your age, I haven't repaired a few cars, right!" The worker snorted, and then said: "Please don't do anything, it's good for you. The car in front of you is an imported car. It’s not the old Jiefang you usually repair, and you can’t afford it if you break it. But you Qinghe shouldn’t have this kind of imported car! Presumably you don’t know what it is."

  Jicheng City is the provincial capital after all, and the Yellow River Automobile Manufacturing Plant is a key provincial enterprise. In the face of Li Weidong, an auto repairer from Qinghe, the workers at the Yellow River Plant can't help but feel a little arrogant.

  Li Weidong smiled, and then replied: "This is the seventh-generation Toyota Crown."

   "What generation? What field? The crown is right. Did you guess by looking at the sign on the front of the car?" the worker asked teasingly.

  Imported crowns were relatively rare at the time, and most people had never seen them. The auto repair workers at the Yellow River Factory only knew that the car was called the Crown, but did not know that the Crown was produced by Toyota, let alone that it was the seventh-generation Crown.

Li Weidong had no choice but to explain: "Crown is a brand of Toyota Motor, does Toyota know? RB's largest car manufacturer can also be ranked in the top ten in the world. Crown Motors began production in 1955. Basically, it will be replaced every four or five years. In 1983, it has been replaced with the seventh generation, which is our current car."

"Really? It's not your brat, right? But RB imported it, and you will be right." The worker said with a face of doubt, but what Li Weidong said was true, and the worker had already believed it. It's seven or eight points.

  Li Weidong handed a cigarette to the worker and asked, "How is this comrade called?"

  The worker took the cigarette and put it in his chest pocket, and then replied: "My name is Chen Jinlong. Comrade, what is your name?"

"My name is Li Weidong, and you can call me Xiao Li." Li Weidong pointed to this seventh-generation Crown, and said, "This Crown car is also considered a luxury car in RB, and it's rare in China. You Yellow River Factory It's a big company, but it's powerful, even a Crown car can be obtained."

"Although our Yellow River Factory is a provincial key enterprise, it is not worthy of such a good imported car. This car is specially equipped to receive foreign guests. I heard that there are only two in our province, and one is in the Dongdao Foreign Trade Bureau. , The other is the one in front of us, from the Provincial Department of Foreign Trade." Liu Jinlong replied.

   "It turns out that this car belongs to the Provincial Department of Foreign Trade. Was it sent for maintenance?" Li Weidong asked again.

Liu Jinlong shook his head: "No, there is no need to send it to us for maintenance. This car is broken, and the general repair shop can't solve it, so it will be sent to us. Our technology here is still better than the ordinary repair shop. "

   "That's right, you guys made cars!" Li Weidong complimented, and then asked: "Then put this car here, is it repaired?"

   "I checked it, it hasn't been repaired yet." Liu Jinlong replied.

  "Where did it go wrong?" Li Weidong asked again.

"It should be a gearbox problem. But the gearbox of this car is different from other cars. The gear of this car is not one, two, three, or four, but English letters. As long as the gear is on and the accelerator is kept on, there is no need to change it. Gear. You haven't seen a car that doesn't change gears!" Liu Jinlong said braggingly.

  Li Weidong turned his head and looked inside the car, and saw the automatic gear lever and the P/R/N/D/S gear position, and he knew that this Crown uses a continuously variable automatic transmission.

  RB cars like to use continuously variable transmission. The biggest difference between CVT and common hydraulic automatic transmission is in structure. Automatic transmission is hydraulically controlled gear transmission, while CVT is composed of shift disc and transmission belt.

  Therefore, the continuously variable transmission has a simpler structure, a smaller volume, and a smoother gear shifting. It does not have the feeling of "pause" when shifting gears in a traditional transmission.

  The reason why RB people are keen on continuously variable transmission is also because of its small size. RB is more popular in China in small cars. CVT does not take up space and can be used with small cars.

In the 1980s, the domestic automobile industry was relatively backward, and the skills of the auto mechanics were not savvy. The domestic auto mechanics did not repair cars with automatic gears, and did not understand the structure of continuously variable transmissions, so they could not repair this seventh-generation car. Crown.

Just listen to Liu Jinlong continuing to say: "We have never repaired a car with this kind of gearbox, so we put the car here first, and asked the driver to go back and get the vehicle manual of this car. After we read the vehicle manual, we will take it apart. Gearbox."

  As soon as Liu Jinlong's voice fell, one person appeared outside the repair workshop and walked in quickly.

   "Speaking of Cao Cao, Cao Cao will be here, and the driver of this car is here." Liu Jinlong looked at the man outside.

   "Master Liu, the vehicle manual, I have brought it." The Crown car driver carried a cloth pocket, then took out a thick vehicle manual from it and handed it to Liu Jinlong.

   "Thanks." Liu Jinlong took over the vehicle manual.

   "What's the hard work, as long as you can repair the car as soon as possible, it will be worthwhile for me to run two more times." The driver said.

  At this time, Liu Jinlong had opened the vehicle manual. In the next second, Liu Jinlong's expression became embarrassing.

   "How is it in Japanese! Who can understand it!"

  　Big brothers, reward you with a few recommended tickets!

  (End of this chapter)