Hazards of the Daily Driver
Well, you can't go out and play without getting your knees skinned.
Hurrican Ike had knocked out all the traffic lights around here. I was stuck in bumper to bumper traffic, inching along, when "Thud". A late model Toyota SUV bangs me in the rear. It was a big thing. Looked like a tank in the rear view mirror. We worked our way to the next intersection and pulled off.
I got out expecting the worst. No bent sheet metal! No broken lights! I had just bounced off of her like a beach ball. She got out and said, "Wow, that little car sure is tough!". All I could find was a perfect, mirror image, imprint of part of her license plate pressed into the plastic of one of the two bumper blocks.
Her adjuster came out yesterday. I asked him to be sure the exhaust system was OK. Visually I can't find anything wrong with it and it sounds OK.
How is the 911 low-impact collision system designed anyway? Are there crushable elements in there that have to be replaced? Something had to absorb that blow.
Hurrican Ike had knocked out all the traffic lights around here. I was stuck in bumper to bumper traffic, inching along, when "Thud". A late model Toyota SUV bangs me in the rear. It was a big thing. Looked like a tank in the rear view mirror. We worked our way to the next intersection and pulled off.
I got out expecting the worst. No bent sheet metal! No broken lights! I had just bounced off of her like a beach ball. She got out and said, "Wow, that little car sure is tough!". All I could find was a perfect, mirror image, imprint of part of her license plate pressed into the plastic of one of the two bumper blocks.
Her adjuster came out yesterday. I asked him to be sure the exhaust system was OK. Visually I can't find anything wrong with it and it sounds OK.
How is the 911 low-impact collision system designed anyway? Are there crushable elements in there that have to be replaced? Something had to absorb that blow.
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