I used to own a 94 Nissan pickup, and it took several hits (idiots not
stopping fast enough) on the rear bumper and generally did more damage
to the other vehicle than it took. By the time I got rid of it in '06
(after inheriting my Dad's Dak), the bumper was a little off-center &
raised in the middle, but hard to notice from a distance. It even
took a hit on the right front bumper once (that one was my fault),
which broke the lens for the right-turn signal, but I never replaced
the lens and that bulb never died even after going through huge
puddles & years of rain.
Unless there was a big difference between the rear bumpers for '91 &
'94 Nissan Pickups, he must've been going pretty fast when he backed
into you. That, or the rear bumper on a '95 Dak is a lot stronger
than the front-end of several different models of cars that impacted
upon my Nissan bumper, one of which was an old-school, solid
land-yacht.
Kurt
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 2:50 AM, Matt Beazer<teseract@moparhowto.com> wrote:
>
>
> A doofus coworker backed into my Dakota tonight in his Nissan pickup. He
> came in and told me about it, but said he didn't see any damage. I went
> out with a flashlight and found a couple of scuffs on my rear bumper and
> no other damage.
>
> We turned the flashlight on his truck and his bumper was mangled where he
> hit me and shoved hard up against the body of the truck. He's going to
> have fun opening his tailgate in the future.
>
> Bad news for him I guess that he didn't own a Dodge, but then again how
> you back into a big red pickup -- the ONLY vehicle on that level of the
> parking garage even -- even at night is beyond me. Of course he does
> come from California. ;)
>
> MattB
>
>
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