Saw an extremely long line of 04 silver Accord coupes.

It was great. My buddy was taking group of youth through there, he knows a guy that's a engineer in R&D, so he gave us a tour, I was able to tag along.

It's only about 30 minutes from my place. You guys here in Ohio...if you can go on a tour there...I suggest you do, it's great.

I'll try and mention a few things that stood out...most of the stats thrown at me I've forgotten already haha.

First off, the sheer size of the place is crazy. There are four plants in Marysville. The plant we toured puts out Accords and TL's. It's pretty loud, so you get headphones and transmitters and the tour guide gets a little mic.

A few other notable things. All employees wear the same simple white shirt and pants, even the president of the plant and the engineer that gave us the tour. We were able to be right there, dodging workers, forklifts, etc. It's so crazy to see a huge line of red TL's then see the start of a huge line of gray TL's. The first few TL's we saw coming off the final assembly were the 6speeds with sport suspension, brembo black calipers with "Acura" on the caliper, and nice big rotors. Pretty sweet looking car in person.

There are two shifts per day, each turning out 900 cars a shift in that plant alone. We saw #200 and company TL's finish up. We also saw them run through a little series of tests on the rollers, etc.

The other line had Accord coupes coming off. Every one was silver while we were there.

They never have any more than about 4 hrs worth of parts in the assembly plant at once...they are constantly coming in.

The robots are just crazy that they can be that accurate and consistant.

Another wild note is that the after the body panels are welded together, the doors go a separate way for full assembly, then return to the exact car they were fitted to for final assembly.

Also...if your car has a problem, and if you take it to the dealer, if pursued, they can track down exactly who was working that area at the time of assembly via the VIN and actually know who torqued that nut, etc.

My buddy also knows a guy that works there at the plant, but is a rep for PPG paint, and works with Honda to ensure paint quality, etc. Pretty cool to hear about the entire paint process, etc.

One thing that I can understand, but still kinda sucks is that they are photo nazi's...don't even think about a camera. I got busted by the security guard that was driving around while I tried to take a picture of the outside of the plant. All I managed was the little pic towards the outskirts of the lot.

Anyway, if I remember anything else cool, I'll add to this.

Bottom line, if you ever get the chance to tour the plant, do it.

My little tag:


The one meager pic I could get: