On Saturday, 3 September 2016 15:20:22 UTC+1, alan_m wrote:
On 03/09/2016 11:30, tabbypurr wrote:
On Friday, 2 September 2016 18:14:00 UTC+1, newshound wrote:

The rubber loop is there to prevent *fatigue* of the steel hangers.

If it causes more failures than it prevents it's counterproductive. The last car had them, and once I replaced the rubber bands with wire there were no more problems.

There must be a good reason why millions of cars on the road have rubber
mounted exhausts rather than wire mounted exhausts.

Lots of cash is spent on pointless junk on cars. Modern cars are all about a certain image of impression that to me means absolutely nothing. A sense of disconnection with the road, naff pretentions of style etc etc. Anyway, a rubber band is cheaper than a steel fixing plus slower assembly.

There's also always engineering pushing it a little too far to try to make progress. And it isn't the manufacturer's problem if the car has more issues later - indeed it tends to profit them.

FWIW I wish we could have the best of both worlds, the safety, economy and roadholding of today's cars without all the rubbish they fit like electric windows, remote control interior lights, bad attempts at styling and so on.


NT