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Originally posted by whizmo
I doubt Honda would devise a maintenance procedure that reduces the safety of the car. Removing that piece of plastic isn't a "shade tree" fix - it's the official way to replace the filter as specified by Honda in the shop manual.
- Mark
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Mark,
I am just using common sense and the physical evidence I have witnessed of a post-crash car....the lower half of your legs are not secured by anything, and these legs literally made "u's" in the dashboard where they hit. (Take a trip to your local junkyard and look at some severe frontal crashs) The dashboard was sheet metal covered by a padded vinyl cover and it still turned his legs black and blue. If there had been any sharp edges there, he would have been severely lacerated.
Honda crash tested the vehicle with the plastic bar in place...why is the plastic bar there in the first place, as the metal bar structurally ties in the dash fascia with its underlying structure? I believe it was to protect the crash dummy's lower legs in the test, & ours if the bar is still in place! Just put your hand under the bottom lip of the GB, and you can follow the action of the contact your legs would have with that bar.
Regards,
efine