Build quality of EG Civic's

[berniebern]

Rolling at 20km/h and hit a 4WD's tow bar...look at the result. 4WD came out with only a cracked rear indicator.

No wonder Civic's are expensive to insure. When they're in an accident they crumple.

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[MoonSha]

That's a good thing. Also hitting a towbar on a large 4WD is like hitting a 3tonne concrete wall with all the pressure focused on a 4x2cm surface area.

[civiceg9]

looks like your car nose went under the car.
$2k job there

[riceball]

your car crumbling in a crash is a good thing... If your car ever rolled and didnt crumble you'll most likely keep rolling.

[barefootbonzai]

surely is a good thing. car crumbling is better than you crumbling, that's y cars have a crumple zone.

[berniebern]

ah i see....so the crumpling absorbs the impact ?

[berniebern]

looks like your car nose went under the car.
$2k job there

I'm thinking more like $5500. Cost $1500 to get a dent in my drivers side door fixed last year

[Fr3aKi3]

ah i see....so the crumpling absorbs the impact ?

Correct, crumple zones are designed to absord the impact so that the car will decelerate slower, hence causing less injuries to you.

Even if the 4wd didn't have a tow bar, your car still woudl've copped a lot of damage. Your car is lower so it'll take more damage. The towbar just makes things worse since it's basically sheet metal vs solid metal.

[incoming]

thats exactly what happened to me!!...

lucky i had my front cut still!!!
cut n shut haha

on my old EG... not the one im selling that is

[SPEEDCORE]

I'd rather bits fly off the car.... and take percentages of kinetic energy with them as they do. :)

[marte]

howd u hit the 4wd when u were rolling 20kms again lol

[bennjamin]

I'd rather bits fly off the car.... and take percentages of kinetic energy with them as they do. :)

exactly right. Rather something replaceable take the brunt of force instead of your head caving in !

[PopadocD15B4]

a while back i had an accident in my EG Breeze i hit smoeone at 100km/h and the civic held up really well there strong cars, i think u would have to be going faster than 20kmh man your of ur ****.

[egSi]

u bet you 90% of small cars would look exactly the same.

buy some ones left over eg6 front cut/nose and get it fitted on and painted.

sorry bout it mate....

[panda[cRx]]

No wonder Civic's are expensive to insure. When they're in an accident they crumple.


cars are designed to crumble these days for safety issues.

would rather have a crumpled bonnet than a crumpled skull :)

[aimre]

where your reinforcment bar?

[Boban]

I hit a van with a towbar doing about 45/50kph while merging in traffic. Had to replace the bonnet and one headlight on my EH and that was about it. The van had a bit of white paint on his tow bar courtesy of my car and that was about it. He didn't even worry about insurance info or anything, and i fixed mine myself for $350 :)

[revNhevN]

remember you drive civic - not a hummer.

[jdm16]

Looking at selling it? Possibly? Damaged

[berniebern]

Nah. The car is fully insured and being repaired. Now that I will be getting a new bonnet and bumper that was heavily scratched b4 hand I be selling the Civic soon after and buying a Renault Clio Sport :)

[Setanta]

I still remember my TA23 turbo'd Celica being rear ended by a EG6 at 60km+.

My '76 Celica had it's rear bumper pushed in and the panel behind it squashed as well as minor RH rear 1/4 damage.

EG6 was a writeoff.

Both of us walked away from it.

Got me a nice respray out of it though,