Yup, you're right! I conflated the GM saddle tank fiasco with the Ford F-150 fuel tank recall. Following big daddy's logic, you'd think Ford would know how and where to install a fuel tank by now.
If you wreck at high speed in any vehicle parts are going to break. Something has to give and help absorb the energy of a crash and help protect the occupant(s). I guess you think modern cars with crumple zones are poorly designed because parts fail in crashes.
That was gnarly.
Yep I feel sorry for those guys. Glad no one was hurt though. On top of that they still got to fix the brand new 4 seater pro r that Heavy D guy smashed up. Lots of work ahead for them. These guys are putting the test to the pro r. They also blew up the motor in the 4 seater doing spins on the ice. That video shows the internals of the 4 cylinder 2 liter in detail. Here is an hours worth of video if you have time.
As I've said before, even a Rhino is fine until you wreck it. All of the thousands of pics and videos of broken Rzrs and X3s could have held up better if they had heim joints or uniballs instead of ball joints. I'd rather see people be able to run out of talent and still be able to drive it back, than the current "I G'd out in a bowl and now I need to get towed back to camp or Joe Fab."
I am pretty sure the number is in the thousands for the Pro R.
Borrow my wife's X3 whenever my buggy chit's out an R&P or CV or whatever... I've G'd out LOTS of times forcing that poor thing to keep up on rides with LT cars, never towed back. Hell, buddy of mine lost his ignition unit and stalled out right in front of her in a blind transition, forcing her to slam on the brakes at the tippy top of a dune (or crash into him). She rolled 5 times down a hill. Flipped it on its wheels, put the chit that fell out of the glove box back, popped a tail light back into place and she towed the stalled buggy out.
Maybe people will crash at higher speeds if the industry raises the speeds that UTVs can attain, but there's no doubt that uniballs are stronger than ball joints. The difference in strength means that there will be a different outcome at less than max speeds.
Yep. And a big block Chevy will be way less stressed making 225hp than a 1L 2-banger.
I don’t think you get it bro. Here let me help!
Yup had a couple misses. But, that’s a preproduction car. Those cars will never end up being “sold” to a customer. And I’m pretty confident the actual production cars will not have these types of mistakes.
Do a bird chit weld on the intrusion bar, so you can look at it all day long, and think hmmmmmmm...
