Originally Posted by
Pop N Wood
One thing to keep in mind is Curt Manufacturing has been in business for a lot of years. Mine has been on the car for 9 years now. If their stuff has been used to tow boats and trailers without them being sued into oblivion one has to guess they probably got the engineering right. Our little bike racks can't be stressing their product too horribly.
I imagine some folks indulged that same logical fallacy when the Takata airbag fiasco emerged. In 2013, Takata had been around 80 years, and making airbags for 26 years, so by your “reasoning,” that should have meant they had the engineering right. Well, we all should know how the Takata story goes.
Seasucker has been around 14 years…at what age do they earn your “I can only assume the engineering is good” pass? And what about GM? Good gravy, can you imagine how many lawsuits they’ve survived? Corvair alone brought them 294 lawsuits with over $100 million in claims. Some of those lawsuits they lost, too, for lousy engineering. Has GM earned your Lifetime Engineering Inviolability Award?