Great Wall Problems Increasing, Sales Goal Decreases 30%

H6 and H8, which Great Wall push hardly recently problems are increasing with more and more offence competition. Sales goal of Great Wall has been cut 30% over first goal made in year 2010.

Great Wall has risen so fast with its SUV products hot market performance. With joint venture brand price extend deep down, growth of Great Wall is slow down obviously.

With up-or-out market situation, Great Wall plays high onto high-end SUV segment. However, limited by its technology power, H6, which is quite hot in market problem outbreaks recently. Meanwhile, its only high-end product shall launch this year, H8 has been delay its market launching because of quality problems. What’s worse, Great Wall electronic car partner bankrupt last year. Its sales goal is cut again.

With H6 hot sold in market, complains is fast increasing as well. At present, gear 1 to 2 shift of H6 problem seems breakout. In year 2014, only China Automobile Quality website has received as many as 250 complainagainst H6. Shifting problem takes about half percentage of them.

Adriver says “picked up the car on 10 March, Great Wall Harvard H6 White Sport 1.5T Gasoline Version. It is very hard to back to gear 1 under 10 yards. In normal time, when the front car speed is below 10 yards, I drive with neutral gear or gear 2, and the front car starts to drive normal speed, I cannot speed up normally. But breaking to reduce speed below 3 yards or shift below 1 gear to initial.”

Another driver says “it is almost impossible to shift 2-gear to 1-gear until the vehicle totally stopped. Shift to gear 2 and 3 and clutch fully depressed shall feel obviously teeth beating.

The risk of gear out of control is obviously. It shall cause vehicle loss power when following drive onto slope. Besides, when brake out of control, it needs shift down gear to self-saving. If not possible to shift gear 2 to gear 1, it means loss self-saving function.

With complains quantityincreasing, Great Wall faces recall risk. According to , mass produced automobile with safety problem which endanger operation shall stop production, sales, import, and implement recall by its producer, and published to mass public. Cost for deficiency eliminate will bear by manufacturer.