This Storage Compartment From An Old Civic Has A Nifty Little Feature
It turns out the seventh-generation Civic's front storage compartment has a little counterweight to stop it opening when it shouldn't
Sometimes, the most interesting parts of a car lie far under the surface, unlikely to ever be uncovered. Little over-engineered details and well-thought solutions to problems you didn’t realise existed. Things like the counterweight on this seventh-generation Civic’s storage compartment.
As detailed by YouTuber Jared’s Garage, once the counter rocks back, it prevents the spring-loaded door opening. Presumably this is so whatever is inside the compartment doesn’t pop the lid open when you’re going up a steep hill, or accelerating hard.
Simple but clever, no?
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Maybe Honda hasnt heard of this magical device called a “latch”
Herro what is a ratch??
I guess they didn’t until they made the 8th gen, my Civic has a latch on the center console. I was confused at first when I read the article cause I wondered why they didn’t have a latch.
I thought the missing power would already prevent it from going up steep hills, so why overengineer that storage compartment o_O
Clearly I poked into the wrong hornets nest.
You do realise, than even for a basic, low powered road car, the limiting factor in getting up hills is grip, not power, right?
Not really clever if you ask me. Why didn’t they just use a latch like anybody else?
They switched to a latch for the 8th gen
What if you park your car uphill and you put your wallet in there?😂
Oh look, piece of candy
Spring-loaded compartments in cars are very complicated and confusing.
That struggle when you try to put something in there with one hand while driving (or take it out)
Maybe it was made that way because of costs. Remember that a civic isnt a rolls royce!
The Honda CR-V has an entire table hidden in the back that most people don’t even know about lol
What? Where?
Yeah,I heard about that a year ago and they did it around 1996…but newer gens don’t have that anymore:/
Yup. When my wife had her ‘06 CR-V I used the table once during a yard sale. The only other time I had it out I was doing something in the back and had laid the table in the grass. When I picked it up to put it back in a bee flew out from under it and stung me. I blame the table.
Pfft Good job Honda good.. NOW INTO SOME OTHER HONDA TO DO IT
Honda - able to think of this, but not reliability on their F1 engines.
Yeah, and they have quite robust marine engines as well…yet even then the F1 tech is not quite there.
You did a full article on this?!?
i was about to say that and then i saw your comment.
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