Monday piece
As Monday piece (also Monday model or lemon car ) in the are industrial single semi-finished or finished products understood by several mainly not recognizable interrelated production error notice.
In colloquial terms, this is the first copy produced at the beginning of the new working week in which the work processes have not yet returned to their usual routine , so that the accuracy of the work suffers (“Monday production”). Since such errors do not only exist in cars, the use of the term “assembly device” is also common.
In particular, the Monday car (or the Monday car ) has established itself in linguistic usage. Also in Dutch there is the Maandagexemplaar , a product of inferior quality, and also the Maandageauto . In the English-speaking world, the term friday afternoon car is also used for such Monday cars in addition to the term lemon ("lemon") . This phrase corresponds to the origin of the German Monday car. But the vernacular assumes that the workers are mentally already in the weekend on Friday and therefore work sloppily.
The Federal Court of Justice (BGH) ruled in the judgment of January 23, 2013: “A new vehicle is to be qualified as a 'Monday car' if the previous course of events from the perspective of a sensible buyer justifies the fear that it is a matter of judgment and prognostic consideration Vehicle that is generally defective due to its production-related quality defects - namely poor workmanship - and which will not be free from production-related defects for a long time. "
See also
- The Market for Lemons
- In the animated film Cars 2 , the term “lemon” is translated as “cucumber”.
