Civinfo - View Single Post - Suspension URGENT: Defect on Civic Safety Critical Part

waran · 23rd April 2008, 17:25

I'm with the general consensus. My car has an almost certain chance of being affected, however as an aeronautical (aerodynamics) engineer myself, I am completely happy with it. This is because all load bearing parts are always designed to have significant safety margins. As Pottsy very correctly points out, normal practice would mean Honda probably (and am I very certain they would have) ran the numbers again and found all this meant is the safety factor is smaller than the design safety factor. In the real world these things happen all the time.

TC- why did they change it, well when someone spotted this problem, they would have stopped using it! They would have gone back to the original design and check if this part was fine. The fact that this claim only affects 4500 cars simply means the problem was known about early on and should give us all reassurance!

I am not comfortable with the dramatic nature of the original post which almost tries to over impress us with some technical knowledge. I have suspicions this has connections to lowering our cars retail value. I hope the media doesn't dramatically make this out to be worse than it is, especially since none of us have heard about any cases of wheels falling of our car model! Now, I sit back and eagerly wait for this dramatic 'evidence'

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waran Supporter Valve Cap Join Date: 9th June 2007 Location: London Posts: 49 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts iTrader: (0)	I'm with the general consensus. My car has an almost certain chance of being affected, however as an aeronautical (aerodynamics) engineer myself, I am completely happy with it. This is because all load bearing parts are always designed to have significant safety margins. As Pottsy very correctly points out, normal practice would mean Honda probably (and am I very certain they would have) ran the numbers again and found all this meant is the safety factor is smaller than the design safety factor. In the real world these things happen all the time. TC- why did they change it, well when someone spotted this problem, they would have stopped using it! They would have gone back to the original design and check if this part was fine. The fact that this claim only affects 4500 cars simply means the problem was known about early on and should give us all reassurance! I am not comfortable with the dramatic nature of the original post which almost tries to over impress us with some technical knowledge. I have suspicions this has connections to lowering our cars retail value. I hope the media doesn't dramatically make this out to be worse than it is, especially since none of us have heard about any cases of wheels falling of our car model! Now, I sit back and eagerly wait for this dramatic 'evidence' .