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Originally Posted by HondaTech
Your tires will lose air if you drive over a nail. Every tire will. Is that a design flaw?
The designers make the parts work as best as they can. You cannot protect from every variable on the road. The condenser is first in line and takes the brunt of the damage. Better no A/C than the radiator becoming damaged and leaving you stranded. Thats why the condenser is first in line, with the radiator second.
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People don't reasonably expect that tires will keep air if driving over a nail.
When desigining a system, you cannot protect from every variable, but you do design the system to operate in it's intended environment. Any tradeoffs which are taken into account have to balance with reliability (amongst other components, but we are in fact effectively discussing reliability). Making a tradeoff of "weaker" parts to save money at the expense of reliability to the point of early failure is a design flaw.