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convertible safety? Do you have a cage? >>
Posted by Dinger (more from Dinger) on Fri, 4 Oct 2002 11:50:55
In Reply to: convertible safety/winter weather, deeph8, Fri, 4 Oct 2002 10:33:52
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Unless you have a roll cage in your convertible you'll want to be watchful for side impacts, multi-car pile-ups and rollovers. Without the extra metal of a hard top sometime in a high energy side impact the car striking you may want to ride up over the belt line / window sill and park in your lap. In a pile-up where you are pinned up against the vehicle in front of you while being struck from behind convertibles have the tendancy to collapse in the middle. With a hardtop the energy of the impact can be distributed over all 4 sides. Without a roof the doors will be faced with having to handle a tremendous force. The sides might bow. If they do and to doors pop open the car will collapse as no floor pan can handle a hing energy impact on it's own. Ask yourself how much wieght a cardboard box can support. Now would you put that same amount of wieght on the same box with one of it's sides cut off? Now Saabs have a lot more engineering behind them than a cardboard box but the basic pricipal holds. As for rolling a convertible without a cage over on it's top? Don't.
Having said all that let me add that I have a convertible and am not afriad to drive it. Just know that in an extreme cases a ragtop might not have enough steal to protect you.
Dinger
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