Most Dangerous Vehicle
06-07-2012, 05:37 PM
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Smells like Consumper Reports v Suzuki America.
BS. Most of the "car media" couldn't find their ass from a hole in the ground...except if that hole is a cupholder with LED lighting.
BS. Most of the "car media" couldn't find their ass from a hole in the ground...except if that hole is a cupholder with LED lighting.
06-07-2012, 05:48 PM
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I am sure that test was with stock bumpers. I would hesitate to guess that close to fifty percent of the Wranglers have after maket steel bumpers installed within the first two years. I will take my chances with the full width LOD bumpers in a crash any day.
06-07-2012, 05:50 PM
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No way that 50% of Wranglers have modded bumpers.
Maybe 50% of the Wranglers on here but that wouldn't be 5% of total production.
I'd bet the stockers hold up decently well. Chrysler would be in heap big doo doo if they folded up like origami.
Maybe 50% of the Wranglers on here but that wouldn't be 5% of total production.
I'd bet the stockers hold up decently well. Chrysler would be in heap big doo doo if they folded up like origami.
06-07-2012, 06:09 PM
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the rear stock bumper is just a piece of plastic mounted to the cross bar and the front is just a thin piece of metal behind the plastic that does not extend much more than about six inches past the frame on either side. The stock bumpers are a joke.
06-07-2012, 06:50 PM
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I have yet to see a stock bumper from Jeep on a Wrangler that can take a grocery cart rolling into it yet alone a car wreck.
06-07-2012, 08:59 PM
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I was rear ended in my YJ in a 40mph zone by an 18 wheeler while waiting to turn left. MAJOR damage to the vehicle (obviously) and my seat back broke and was nearly flat after the impact. The cop was going to call for a tow, but I drove the wrecked YJ home. It drove straight and true with no problems. It was totalled by the insurance company. The JK has to be much better handling these impacts. This is just a reflection of the increasing disparity between the lab nerds and the real world.
06-08-2012, 03:29 AM
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I was rear ended in my YJ in a 40mph zone by an 18 wheeler while waiting to turn left. MAJOR damage to the vehicle (obviously) and my seat back broke and was nearly flat after the impact. The cop was going to call for a tow, but I drove the wrecked YJ home. It drove straight and true with no problems. It was totalled by the insurance company. The JK has to be much better handling these impacts. This is just a reflection of the increasing disparity between the lab nerds and the real world.