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Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 11:57:45 -0700 From: "White Flame (aka David Holz)" <white-flame!!!nopsamemove!!!cities.com> Subject: Re: Bumpers are too freaking low!
Douglas Swank wrote in message <371418ae.0nopsamebnnrp>... >I don't want to jump to conclusions, but this sounds very similar to an >incident that happened about 5 months ago in which I rear-ended a Taurus in >an '88 9000. The Taurus suffered minor rear end bumper damage, while the >entire front end of my car above the bumper was wiped out. The reason, >however, was not that the bumper was too low but that the car (mine) had >pitched forward under hard braking, thus dropping the bumper height a few >inches. Likewise, the Taurus had also pitched forward slightly, effectively >raising the rear bumper at the point of impact. Yeah, I suspect that had a little to do with it, but as I had no traction at the time, my deceleration rate was not that big. Side-to-side, the structural midpoint of my 900 bumper is lower than that of the bumper of most all other cars it's sat to in various parking lots, meaning mine's going to be the one underneath. >I'm sorry to hear about the accident, though. Yeah, it really sucks, but at least there was no "real" damage: bumper's still straight, radiator didn't get damaged, no frame/fender/suspension/axle damage. Need a new front end & hood, though, which I'll probably be frankensteining off my broken '83 900S. White Flame (aka David Holz) http://fly.to/theflame
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