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Old 10-14-2005, 07:56 PM
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Default Re: Dearborn Hybrid Event

Hi Gonavy:
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Originally Posted by gonavy
Remember- every published spec has a bult-in safety factor in every field. It would be suicide to give out the real max/mins- too much inaccuracy in day-to-day life to be able to reliably stay on the right side of the limit. So everything gets well-padded.

44# max written on the walls means they will remain intact at 2x or 3x that. Going beyond 44# just implies that you're on your own.
___There is nothing new here except for the millions of miles of Insight experience at 50 + #’s as seen over at IC … I am only in the initial hundreds of thousands of miles range myself

___And a few other questions I had but forgot to ask while there? Does anyone have a RR rating on the Eco Plus’ and is there somebody working to add lumbar support adjustments to the next gen Escape HEV? The RR of the tires is an obvious question. The Escape’s built in lumbar support although Ok for me, may be lacking for some and an adjustment lever would be just the trick!

___Good Luck

___Wayne R. Gerdes
___Waynegerdes@earthlink.net

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