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Old 12-13-2007, 05:36 AM
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Is there any real purpose to them? What do they do?
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Do you meen the big yellow garbage cans on the freeway?
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Originally Posted by wayland1985
Is there any real purpose to them? What do they do?

They are intended to absorb some of the energy from a front end collision so that at low speeds your air bags don't inadvertantly deploy. At least that's my understanding.

Unless you're talking about those things on the freeway
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crash cans or crush cans?
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Originally Posted by wayoflife
Just so everyone knows what we're talking about here, this is a crush can...



In essense, it is a thin hollow metal soup can attached to the metal factory bumper sub-frame. It's purpose is to help absorb a minor impact by collapsing and prevent the deployment of your airbags. There are no wires, electronics or switches inside it and are only as good as if they get hit - period.
this is a prime example of them being utterly useless:

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Sorry... I did mean crush cans...


Low impact crashes, eh? Seems more like an excuse to make a very boring plastic bumper a little less boring...
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Originally Posted by HappyCurmudgeon
this is a prime example of them being utterly useless:


Lol!!

There aren't too many bumpers out there that will stand up to a telephone poll!!! Cans or no cans.
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dear lord that hurt!!
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hahahahahahaha!


So the non-factory orange crush can gets installed backwards, eh? Do they make a non-factory grape crush can? What benefits do the crush lunchboxes have? They seem a bit bulky....




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