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Old 14th June 2007, 03:36   #20 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Topcat View Post
The previous civic had an excellent reputation the new civic appears to have many problems largely due to poor design, cheap parts. Probably the car would still have issues if it was built in Japan because of this but no doubt poor quality workmanship doewn't help from the workers in Swindon, I mean how many people have had the springs fitted upside down!!!!
Hi TC

This is probably a good example of a pre-assembled part (though this is a guess as I don't work for Honda), as the front hub, strut, spring are probably assembled at a suppliers, then shipped to Honda as a unit!

Also a good design wouldn't allow the spring to be fitted wrongly!
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