[anandpadhye]

Hi,

I am also an NHC owner and recipient of such hits on both my bumpers.

For me the consolation has been the Honda bumper material. It's so flexible...on a couple of occasions, a PMT (equivalent of BEST in Mumbai...equivalent only in it's constitutional status not in quality of attitude or anything else...) bus hit the car and I got down to see that the bumber had sunked in. After shgouting at the bus driver, he just took a couple of feet reverse (with no sign of regret on his face) and when I looked at the bumper, it slowly came back to it's original shape (with minor mis-alignment at the edges)...I was impressed even in that situation...

of course, I wasn't lucky on other ocassions and had to get the bumper replaced in one of the incidents...

In India, people think the bumpers or the body has to be made rock solid like of steel/concrete or something and they install all sorts of bull bars and what not...they just do not realise that the car shell (including bumpers) is made to "absorb" the impact more than to resist it. If bumper did not flex and bend in place, it will add to the disaster....

Glad that you also observed these to be the virtues of NHC.

And you are lucky as your husband deals in the related industry...

For me the the grief of the accident always has "part 2" - dealing with the greedy "deccan honda"...their mouth starts watering when they see another "accident car"...