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Originally Posted by TTDegs
says to me "concern raised with VOSA, VOSA investigated, decided no further action required"
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This is the crux of it. FMEA may well be correct in his statement that the threads are undersized. However, that's only part of the story - for there to be a safety issue, it also has to be shown that the undersized threads will cause the part to fail. As far as I can see, FMEA has no way of determining this, as he stated he hasn't worked for Honda and thus does not have enough detailed information.
So, it's left in the hands of VOSA and Honda. Honda you hope would be long-term enough to recall products if there was a safety issue, but you also have to accept that there is a slight conflict of interest here and they have to manage both the technical and PR risk. So, back to VOSA, which has no such conflicts.... If you believe either that VOSA aren't truly independent and/or are corrupt in some way, you worry about this. Otherwise, you have to trust that they're dealing with the matter in a competent way, pending further "evidence".
FMEA, if you're still reading this, what evidence do you have that this is a safety risk?
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