Volvo announces Greenline initiative: Refurbished with a warranty
Do you remember your Ecology 101 lessons? One of the first lessons is always "reuse." Volvo has taken the role of teacher and is telling us about its new Greenline initiative. What's this about? A range of "renewed" vehicle components which are procured by recycling components from scrapped Volvos. Specifically, old Volvo parts that the company inspects. According to Volvo, the renewed pieces not only get an inspection to determine suitability, but they must also reach same quality standard as new pieces. What's even better, Volvo backs these components with its standard 12-month warranty. To put this into a somewhat odd numerical comparison: 400 new subframes from the Volvo S80 use the same energy as heating 17 Nordic houses for a year, whereas remanufacturing them saves 52 tons of CO2. Other parts refurbished in the Greenline range include propshafts, throttle assemblies, various brackets, spring/struts and chassis members, and Volvo plans to add more in the future.[Source: Volvo]
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Brn 10:07AM (11/20/2008)
At first, I thought this meant they were using refurbished parts on a new car. Then the article mentioned a 12 month warranty on the part. This makes it sounds like that we're not talking about anything other than selling refurbished parts. Selling refurbished auto parts has been happening since the beginning of time.
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Brn 10:16AM (11/20/2008)
Rereading it, it sounds like I'm right. The only difference is that Volvo is doing the referb as opposed to one of the zillion other companies that have historically done the referb.
brian 3:12PM (11/20/2008)
I love how an effort to profit from the used auto parts market is billed as the "Greenline initiative".
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