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http://totalcarmagazine.com/tech/2014/01/14/don_t_crash_it_twice_in_the_same_way/
Came across this, maybe of interest to some
Came across this, maybe of interest to some
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Slightly alarmist; fair enough, I'd not want to be in a cut'n'shut or a car where the passenger cell has seen significant repair like the Passat shown, but most repairs are far more superficial than this, most of the work tends to be of a cosmetic nature. Maybe the way accident damaged cars are classified needs changing to take this into account?
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slightly alarmist???? I would have said very alarmist and also not very thorough...ie 100% typical of current reporting
airbags, like everything else have a failure rate and sometimes one will not work as designed... as the repairs were to vehicles that in the normal run of things would be total write offs any repair is therefore unrealistic and any interpreted results therefore deliberately misleading.... ie the idea that a damaged car is always unsafe, which seems tho be their line of thought.
airbags, like everything else have a failure rate and sometimes one will not work as designed... as the repairs were to vehicles that in the normal run of things would be total write offs any repair is therefore unrealistic and any interpreted results therefore deliberately misleading.... ie the idea that a damaged car is always unsafe, which seems tho be their line of thought.
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Very interesting read, agree with the writter regarding the non deployed curtain airbag, the research team left that open ended.
Also the conclusion would seem to suggest that hot working the bent sections (presumably over a large area) caused failure, where as localised heat from a butt joint remained intact - so can we conclude from that; that if both cars had been repaired using new pannels - or salvaged second hand ones and welded in with MIG the result would have been better than it was?
Also the conclusion would seem to suggest that hot working the bent sections (presumably over a large area) caused failure, where as localised heat from a butt joint remained intact - so can we conclude from that; that if both cars had been repaired using new pannels - or salvaged second hand ones and welded in with MIG the result would have been better than it was?
