Comments | zandperl: Understatement of the Year: Car Edition

zandperl

Understatement of the Year: Car Edition

Jul 18, 2008 23:44

I just received a nice Safety Recall from my friendly Honda HQ regarding my 2006-7 Honda Civic. Quoting the relevant part, emphasis mine:

Honda Motor Co., Ltd., has decided that a defect related to motor vehicle safety exists in certain 2006-07 model year Civic vehicles equipped with anti-lock brake systems (ABS). The ABS module uses wheel speed ( Read more... )

real life, cars

Comments 3

rubicat July 19 2008, 11:36:33 UTC

getting a new car, then?

*yikes*

So... how DO they resolve this, anyway?

zandperl July 19 2008, 12:01:54 UTC

New car?!?! God no, it's only got 38,000 miles on it!

You go in and they inspect to see if there's any leaks in the seal, and if not there's nothing to worry about. If there is, they replace everything - ABS, bearings, and all.

marquiswildbill July 25 2008, 22:27:19 UTC

Now knowng the full story I would say that this is honda being super careful (rather than ford being like oh shit, our cars blow up when people start them every 7th time, time for your 70th recal mr ford owner, one of the reasons I bagged my focus). Honda probably had 2 problems out of the million plus civics from that time period and decided to recall because even one lawsuit for that could cost mroe than a recall (deciding this is Jack's job in Fight Club). And Honda is so well known for build quality and reliability that I see them taking this very seriously. A safety problem associated with the civic would probably sink them. It would hurt them very badly at best. And if you ever need to, steer into the skid to regain grip then out of it to straighten out a car. This is another reason why we should have the german style of driving test. You go to driving school to learn how to handle emergency road situations and are then tested on them, unlike America where you have to drive around the block and parallel park at worst, or drive ( ... )