02-20-2014, 02:43 AM
What Chip said. It applies to any durable goods product.
As far as the Honda; it's just one data point (two if we assume your buddy had the exact same problem) which over the total population of machines built means statistically nothing. We'd need a lot more data points to draw a reasonable conclusion. Even then, when YOU are the person the negative experience happens to, well, that's bad. It's like saying hit by lightening is highly unlikely unless YOU are the person hit.
So it sucks you had a bad experience with one model, we don't know the cause of the problem, just the aftermath. You will be over reaching by drawing any conclusions from it; e.g. quality control, build quality, reliability predictions etc.
As far as the Honda; it's just one data point (two if we assume your buddy had the exact same problem) which over the total population of machines built means statistically nothing. We'd need a lot more data points to draw a reasonable conclusion. Even then, when YOU are the person the negative experience happens to, well, that's bad. It's like saying hit by lightening is highly unlikely unless YOU are the person hit.
So it sucks you had a bad experience with one model, we don't know the cause of the problem, just the aftermath. You will be over reaching by drawing any conclusions from it; e.g. quality control, build quality, reliability predictions etc.