ch4 Despatches: How safe is your car?

[HarryM1BYT]

Originally Posted by murphyv310

Richard.
It's not just cars that are made badly.
Washing machines with plastic drums.
Chinese TV sets with the "CE" label put on the factory with no CE testing done.
13Amp moulded plugs with NO fuse.
Wall wart power supplies with no thermal fuses or cut out

I'm sure many will come up with more examples

I have seen all of those

[charlie 22]

Originally Posted by charlie 22

I think it was going to be a 5 star if Rover put the air bag on the b pillar as standard not as an option.

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Sorry a piller

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[HarryM1BYT]

Originally Posted by Jim Jamieson

Nice to see our cars have a good 4 star rating.

I thought I read they made 5 stars, with all of the safety options fitted?

[Leyland Worldmaster]

Originally Posted by JSS

As an Range Rover and Rover owner, I'm still quite impressive about the original strong build and safety design of Rover 75.

I'm impressed with my little Alison's results. I didn't want to compromise with safety when downsizing from the '75.

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the Ford Pinto tragedy.

I'll find a link and post it.

Ford knew there was a serious design flaw; when the Pinto was involved in a rear end collision, the fuel tank was pushed into the rear axle, thus piercing the 'tank and many customers died or suffered severe burns in the subsequent fire.

Ford did have a modification- a lining for the 'tank and a shield for the axle- but costings showed it was cheaper to pay out for legal claims!

A lot of attempts to cover it up but the customers won in the end.

At a huge cost.

[good_mojo]

Originally Posted by Leyland Worldmaster

but costings showed it was cheaper to pay out for legal claims!

So many manufacturers put profits before all else and their corporate greed causes unnecessary suffering with callous disregard for human life.

[charlie 22]

Capitalism promotes greed it's the world we live in. In an ideal world business world be run on the premises of profit is good as it shows the the company is healthy and can look after its self but excessive profit show that part of the business is suffering eg customer service or quality of the product and in the short term looks great but in the longer time frame will hurt the company. Eg vw at the moment.




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[Leyland Worldmaster]

Originally Posted by good_mojo

So many manufacturers put profits before all else and their corporate greed causes unnecessary suffering with callous disregard for human life.

http://m.motherjones.com/politics/1977/09/pinto-madness

[good_mojo]

The exploding fuel tank took years for Jeep to fix - which is even more of a scandal as they could have learned from the Ford Pinto story.

The current model of Jeep Cherokee also has problems:
https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/anton-ye...075937488.html

[breakfastinsmethwick]

I asked a crash test engineer what was a safe car to get. He said it depends on the type of accident you are going to have.

[grivas]

Originally Posted by ratchet

There is a tiny difference in the font the Chinese use for CE labels. They argue that it isn't a fake European Conformance label, because the font is different, and CE stands for Chinese Export

The answer is obvious, don't buy anything made in China, and stop destroying home grown manufacturing, to think that out economy consists of nearly 80% services, and to further think that we were the manufacturing house of the world, it is shameful. Bring back manufacturing apprenticeships, engineering and training, and stop buying garbage from developing nations, that is the way to ensure safety and quality, if only the elected bozos had the vision.