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Originally Posted by DGthe3
If the manual exists as a legal protector, why do they recommend against hard stops? If 'well, the manual said ... ' is a valid argument, anyone with a new car could blame the manufacturer every time they run a red light or a stop sign or rear end someone or hit a tree or whatever. And yet, thats not a thing.
Similar thing goes for hard cornering. 'Sorry your Honour, I couldn't swerve to avoid them because the owners manual said not to make any hard turns during the first 200 miles.'
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A manufacturer isnt going to get sued just because someone driving did something stupid and it just happened to be in one of their cars. Where liability creeps in is if say the rear diff locks up and forces you off the road or careening through the front of a coffee shop. The liability statements are there to help protect where there is a potential fault with the car, not just for general dangerous driving.