In article <bcktf.450$%W1.228@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.ne t>, "Elle"
<honda.lioness@nospamearthlink.net> wrote:

> "Jason" <jason@nospam.com> wrote
> "Elle"
> snip
> > > Wow--a catastrophic lower spark plug tube O-ring
> failure. Do
> > > you remember about how many miles were on the Accord?
> > >
> > > I'll mention this catastrophic failure to my site on
> these
> > > O-rings, if you don't mind.
> >
> > About 85,000 miles--it was a 1993 Honda Accord EX.
>
> Oops, sorry: Also, about what year did the oil O-rings fail?
>
> > It's now in the junkyard
> > since Sarah wrecked it. She ran off the road in the middle
> of the night.
> > It was my guess that she went to sleep but she denys it.
> She was not hurt.
> > Thank God there were no trees next to the road.
>
> A good reminder as we head into the American New Year's
> holiday. As a kid, my family had a neighbor that lost a son
> because he fell asleep at the wheel while driving home from
> college. He drove off a bridge, and so never woke again.
> Horrible.

1997--That's a sad story. Lots of tractor trailer truck drivers
have wrecked as a result of going to sleep. I hope that the
auto. engineers develop a solution to the problem. I know that
they are working on it. A camera is pointed at the head. If the
head falls forward, a buzzer goes off.
Jason

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"Jason" <jason@nospam.com> wrote
E
> > A good reminder as we head into the American New Year's
> > holiday. As a kid, my family had a neighbor that lost a
son
> > because he fell asleep at the wheel while driving home
from
> > college. He drove off a bridge, and so never woke again.
> > Horrible.
>
> 1997--That's a sad story. Lots of tractor trailer truck
drivers
> have wrecked as a result of going to sleep. I hope that
the
> auto. engineers develop a solution to the problem. I know
that
> they are working on it. A camera is pointed at the head.
If the
> head falls forward, a buzzer goes off.

Interesting. And it does seem eminently correctable, like
you say.

I'll mention the years and miles to catastrophic failure of
your spark plug tube O-rings on my site.

 

"Jason" <jason@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> 1997--That's a sad story. Lots of tractor trailer truck drivers
> have wrecked as a result of going to sleep. I hope that the
> auto. engineers develop a solution to the problem. I know that
> they are working on it. A camera is pointed at the head. If the
> head falls forward, a buzzer goes off.
> Jason
>
I recall in the 60s or 70s there was some buzz about a system that would
monitor the correction rate on the steering wheel, watching for the little
back-and-forth movement that keeps us nicely centered in our lane. Wonder
what became of that?

Mike

 

> Date: Fri, Dec 30 2005 9:09 pm
> From: "Elle"
>
> ... replace the TB [...] more frequent if you do
> "severe" driving.



What constitutes "severe" driving?

 

In article <1136063643.917140.128510@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups .com>, "karl"
<ottokarl@cognisurf.com> wrote:

> > Date: Fri, Dec 30 2005 9:09 pm
> > From: "Elle"
> >
> > ... replace the TB [...] more frequent if you do
> > "severe" driving.
>
>
>
> What constitutes "severe" driving?


In some areas of Canada, the weather is near or below freezing
several months per year--that's "severe driving".
If you drive your car over 80 miles per hour on a regular basis
esp. in really hot weather--that could be considered severe driving.
Obviously, if you race your car--that's severe driving.

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"Jason" <jason@nospam.com> wrote
"karl"> <ottokarl@cognisurf.com> wrote:
> > > From: "Elle"
> > >
> > > ... replace the TB [...] more frequent if you do
> > > "severe" driving.
> > What constitutes "severe" driving?
>
> In some areas of Canada, the weather is near or below
freezing
> several months per year--that's "severe driving".
> If you drive your car over 80 miles per hour on a regular
basis
> esp. in really hot weather--that could be considered
severe driving.
> Obviously, if you race your car--that's severe driving.

The Canada Honda site calls conditions severe if the car is
"regularly driven in very low temp (-29 C, -20 F)."

The American Honda site (and some American Honda owner's
manuals) calls conditions severe if one drives in one or
more of the conditions below most of the time:

Trips of less than 5 miles (less than 10 in freezing
weather)
Extremely hot weather (over 90 degrees F)
Extensive idling or stop-and-go driving
Trailer towing, car-top carrier, or mountain driving
Muddy, dusty, or de-iced roads