Like I said you have your own bumpers made (Front and back) for a few
hundred bucks out of 1" to 2" thick steel, and you don't have to worry
about it, one of my friends did it on his '96 Ram, about a year ago he hit
a Mercedes (Mercedes ran a stop sign) going about 50 mph, totalled the
Mercedes, did nothing to his truck but scratch the paint on his bumper,
that's why I decided to do the same.....
Bruce
>
> Bruce Aaron Hefner wrote:
> >
> > There's also the thing that most of the damage was beacause of the shitty
> > factory bumpers, that's why I always have custom-made bumpers installed
> > then all the force of the impact is transferred to the 36,000 PSI
> > breaking strength frame which can take it instead of to the sheet metal
> > body, then the only damge incurred in their little tests would be a
> > scratch in the paint on the bumper, cost to fix, $3.00 for a can of
> > touch-up paint...
> >
> > Bruce
>
> The local news showed some video of these tests. in one test they
> backed them square into a concrete pole. I hate to say it but the
> Dakota bumper majorly buckled in the midle on this one, looked like it
> was made out of aluminum can material. One thing that made me laugh was
> when they showed the Jap crap as they backed it into a wall, the plastic
> step pads popped up in the air and landed on the floor..... uhh, had to
> be there I guess, I thought it was funny anyway.
> --
> ----
> Michael Clark mike@snakebite.com
> '93 MarkIII 4X2 V-8 SWB RC auto, DDBC
> K&N FIPK, Flowmaster cat-back dual, MP SBEC
> Doug Thorley Headers, Moroso Blue Max wires
> 180 degree thermostat, WaterWetter, Brass cap & rotor
> one and only 1/4 mile time of 15.08 @ 90.82
> My Dakota page=> http://web.wt.net/~mclark/dakota.html
> Dakota Webring=> http://web.wt.net/~mclark/webring/ring.html
>
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