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It’s a slow day, so here’s a hypothetical. If you could go back in time and speak to the NSX’s designers, give them a glimpse of the future problems their car would experience so they could clean it up during development, what problems would those be? How about:
Faulty regulator cable “thingies.”
The tranny snap-ring issue
Tendency for oil starvation on the #4 crank bearing when car is tracked
Harmonic balancer will shear off under certain conditions
Door handles will at some point start breaking
Speaker amps will fail
CCU will have high failure rate
Physical a/c system should be just a bit more robust
Seat bolsters (perhaps) should be a more durable synthetic material
Dash garnish under front windshield will eventually crack
Car should come with keyless system standard
The B-pillars are too heavy
The antenna is too heavy and long
Cassette tapes are going the way of the dodo
Skip the 40-pound trunk 6-CD changer and give us a single in the console
Left out are things like “The wheels are ugly,” “The black top is debatable,” “Rear-tire camber is too extreme,” and other things that are more matters of taste.
I would also hasten to tell them that despite this list of little niggling things the car would prove to be one of the best ever made. Notable here is the absence of any major problem that a car eventually becomes known for (a la RX-7).
I then would immediately attempt to beg up some more power.:biggrin:
If you had their ear, what would you tell them?
Faulty regulator cable “thingies.”
The tranny snap-ring issue
Tendency for oil starvation on the #4 crank bearing when car is tracked
Harmonic balancer will shear off under certain conditions
Door handles will at some point start breaking
Speaker amps will fail
CCU will have high failure rate
Physical a/c system should be just a bit more robust
Seat bolsters (perhaps) should be a more durable synthetic material
Dash garnish under front windshield will eventually crack
Car should come with keyless system standard
The B-pillars are too heavy
The antenna is too heavy and long
Cassette tapes are going the way of the dodo
Skip the 40-pound trunk 6-CD changer and give us a single in the console
Left out are things like “The wheels are ugly,” “The black top is debatable,” “Rear-tire camber is too extreme,” and other things that are more matters of taste.
I would also hasten to tell them that despite this list of little niggling things the car would prove to be one of the best ever made. Notable here is the absence of any major problem that a car eventually becomes known for (a la RX-7).
I then would immediately attempt to beg up some more power.:biggrin:
If you had their ear, what would you tell them?
