Does anyone know of anyone else that has had problems with suspension on their s2000??

Broken control arm caused a crash that now is causing me a freakin' fortune and lots of pain.

I have at least one ruptured disc that is going to have to be removed and probably at least one and maybe two other discs. They then fuse the vertebra together, so I will have limited motion in my back!

I heard there was one other s2000 that broke....but don't know anything more than that. I could really use your help on this guys...I'm facing 9 weeks in bed of recovery no sitting, driving, walking etc.....and another 9 months of physical therapy and a huge outlay personally above and beyond what insurance will cover.

Please pass this along and let me know...

I'm really hoping this has happened elsewhere. Honda has already been notified, but one person having the problem won't get me anything unfortunately.

 

I've read this three times and I still have no idea WTF you are talking about. Are you saying a broken control arm is responsible for your broken back?

 

Broken control arm caused the wreck that caused my broken back, yep!

 

i'm sorry about what happened and hope you have a speedy recovery
but can you tell us what happened exactly? and what's going to happen to you/the car/law sue?

 

just driving along normally, about 45mph around an easy corner, 4 lane highway, no rain or anything, rear end started coming around did a 180 and slammed into a bridge.

I have posted before this is a chapter 2.

Car was in the shop for 3 months....

Can't get an attorney to take the case against Honda without a retainer. So unless I can find someone else that has had this happen, I'm SOL.

 

I think there's more to the story, and not to doubt you at all - but I don't think the control arm just snapped at all. it sounds more like the tires came lose or you lifted the throttle and the rear end came around which is quite tyipcal if you don't know this car very well at or near limits exceeding 6 or 7/10ths of its capacity (yes, that low).

IF, and I do say, IF, the rear control arm broke, your rear end wouldn't come around. I've never had this happen, nor known anyone to have this happen to them before, but.. theoretically it would cause ill driving behaviour/massive camber crunch and your car wouldn't be in control while the tire would hit the wheel well causing the tire not to spin at all, thus locking up that portion of the rear end, and the car would actually attempt to spin the other direction.

 

just to clarify; front control arm? rear link? If it helps, i've had back surgery and am now Better than new.

 

Sorry to hear about your accident but until you added the part about the crash I had no idea how one could cause the other.

 

Control arms are designed to break on impact. Why do you think the control arm broke before impact?

 

I think the last name was Johnson and he was from Austin and in the spring of 2000 he had a front left control arm break. Of course, at that time all the discussions were on another board so don't search. I have a printed archive of "important" threads and I may have saved this one since it did bring up the recall in Japan on the control arms. I will go look for it.

Your description does make it a little difficult to tell if it was control arm failure though. When the above mentioned control arm failure occurred, the front end dove down and to the left and he did spin out to left across two lanes of road and ended off the road.