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Originally Posted by dorkbydesign

New development in the story:

My father was used to work as a mechanical engineer in Japan and got in touch with one of his old friends, an engineer/technician at the Tokyo head office.

I have asked them for the SSM3 data so that I could send it to him to analyse, to which they responded: (and I quote)
"I don't like the direction this is going, so you will have to submit that query with our legal counsel."

He wanted to explain to me the data he had, upon which I asked him what evidence that gives me because it's circumstantial to me until I see the tangible evidence.

To which he responded: (and I quote)
"Why can't you have some trust and faith that our evidence is correct?"

This really rustled my jimmies because I shouldn't need to trust or have faith in what they're telling me. I should be able to view the tangible evidence myself.

Is this a whole new level of dodgy or what?

It is quite dodgy, because they don't want litigation I believe.
I mean you have to understand there level of caution, with what happened with Toyota when a brake "failure" escapade became apparent things went crazy in the U.S. To the outside observers though you have to understand how suspicious this is to them, a person driving another person's car get's into an accident and blames the accident on the failure of something within the car. That's all that subaru will try to keep pushing, you standing your ground being adamant something is wrong should prevail. Also if I might ask has your GF had any past accidents of this nature before? And how long has she been driving?