Reducing the Accident Rate

On 20 Jul 2004 07:53:04 -0700, (Michael) wrote:

Well as one example I experienced a sudden catastrophic engine failure this
year in my 1999 Toyota minivan. An engine cooling fan circuit malfunctioned
and the engine overheated while driving in a snowstorm. I pulled over right
away but nonetheless the engine block had melted and I needed a new block
and new cylinders... $8000 in warranty work repairing the engine due to
failure of a $125 part.

Hmmm, wait, you were driving in winter and the engine overheated
because the cooling fan malfunctioned? My cooling fan never comes on
in the winter. As long as I'm moving at any speed, the air through
the radiator alone is way more than enough to cool the engine without
the cooling fan coming on. It's only when I stop and idle for a while
that the fan may come on, and that only happens if it's relatively
warm (40 degrees).

Something isn't adding up.

Corky Scott

"Richard Kaplan" wrote:
I have experienced a lot more engine problems driving
cars than flying airplanes for sure.

Another Jaguar driver!
--
Dan
C172RG at BFM

Michael wrote:

Yes it would. The very fact that the manufacturers COULD do it if
they chose, and choose not to, indicates that they don't want the
facts known.

What makes you think the manufacturers could do that? Many, if not most engine
repairs and overhauls are not performed by the manufacturer, so they have no little
data. You're expecting a manufacturer to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to
research a report which provides no benefit to the manufacturer. The fact that they
"choose not to" merely indicates that they don't want to waste their money.

George Patterson
In Idaho, tossing a rattlesnake into a crowded room is felony assault.
In Tennessee, it's evangelism.

"G.R. Patterson III" wrote
You're expecting a manufacturer to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to
research a report which provides no benefit to the manufacturer.

A report that showed that the engine was extremely reliable when
maintained and overhauled in accordance with the manufacturer's
recommendations (that's all SB's/TBO's are to Part 91 operators) would
have great benefit to the manufacturer.

Of course I don't believe that's what the report will show.

Michael