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Yes and no, depends on the part. Some parts are completely off the shelf and you'll find them across brands, this can include major parts like gearboxes, most car manufacturers do not build their own (Honda design & build all their own gearboxes), they are from gearbox manufacturers like ZF...

German cars might be your thing then, it should be fairly easy to find most of the listed above.

KYB only make shock absorbers not other suspension parts or whole suspension systems. Showa make complete systems and they are the ones that provide Honda with the complete double wishbone system. I've not seen KYB used in from stock myself, they could have supplied the optional sports dampers...

The Subaru's are full of all sorts of wizardry. There's not much modern cars that wont have some sort of electronic thing somewhere that will cause problems. But I don't think its all doom and gloom. The Prius is full of all sorts of high tech wizardry underneath, but by and large they are...

Which they are... Double wishbone suspensions are made by Showa...

They did sell the Type V with the 2.0 and yes they came as hatchback on both 2.3 and 2.0. Missed the original question, they were made between 99-2001 in varying trims. They just had extra option installed.

These might be up your street Freddo http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Subaru-Legacy-2-5-SE-Navplus-sports-tourer-Estate-2010-/282553608862?hash=item41c981ea9e:g:0AwAAOSwwvZZWRQQ 3.6 litres lol...

Well you conned yourself lol. Honda don't claim perfection, no one does.

What claim is incorrect? Showa make the double wishbone suspensions for Honda. The 7th gen are made by Showa. The 7th generation is built in Japan not UK, it was designed in the early 00's, it has a different part supply line, so not sure what your point is about KYB expanding into Europe. The...

If any dumbo could do that, why didn't the others dominate or win? McHonda won 15-16 races in one season, record breaking. None of the dumbos managed it, even seasoned racers Ferrari. As for Honda's double wishbone, it was born, inspired what ever you want to call it out of F1, so was the...

It's all relative isn't it. Ford have a reputation for being a bit unreliable, yet I know people who have run them without any issues. Volvo used to have a reputation for reliability, yet my dad had one and it had loads of problems. I personally wouldn't touch one Honda model myself, the 8th...

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Car manufacturers and engineers disagree with you. Your car failing on its suspensions doesn't equal = DW being bad or Honda suspensions being bad. This is the MOT history of my bro in laws car, not a single failure:

That's a very simpleton argument there Freddo and incorrect ones too and actually disproves your own ***ertion that Honda are an incompetent manufacturer. Honda didn't just have success with turbo engines, they got banned after the 1988 season, they won the constructors in 1989, 90, 91 with N/A...

Same here, we have had several Honda's in the family over decades and never has once failed on its suspensions. I've been around Honda's for near my lifetime and never come across such claims made here. It seems that people who have had single bad experiences with Honda's are projecting it onto...

and I have a million anecdotes of Audi's VW's and BMW's with constantly failing suspensions. Things that never break on other cars break on cars like Audi's, even solid metal bits like the arm crack and fail on Audi's. one generation of Ford Fiesta's has a common problem of springs snapping...

I have a 18 year old Accord with 88k on the clock, still on all original suspension parts bar the front shocks. Brother in law recently bought a 7th gen with 101k on the clock, all on original suspension, the driver side upper ball joint has failed just now which I will be changing this...

I know, I have KYB excel G shocks on my fronts. Showa are the main suppliers however for Honda since they first started making cars and were the primary suppliers during the double wishbone era. I am not sure about their recent cars as I haven't inspected any yet, I would imagine they have more...

What do yours regularly fail at? Drop links and ball joints?

Freddo you sound bitter :p and I probably sounding like a bit of a blind fanboy which is annoying you. I know what the Accord suspensions look like, I have one, I didn't say they weren't complicated, just that they aren't any more complicated than a lot of other suspension setups out there. The...