yeah, because a lot of people have 8000 laying around to pay out of pocket

 

here in sfl they do
/gotem

 

They throw fits about after market stereo's. They also throw a fit if you have (say) a dog cage in your backseat, and it damages something on your interior while in an accident. They are supposed to cover it, but alot of them try to get out of it.

And Whenever in a crash, your seat belts should be changed (provided they hit the stop point), but that never happens either.


There's ALOT of things that they don't pay for that's just plain and simple bull****.

 

yeah i have a friend who works for State Farm and he told me without the crashbeam, you will be fu*ked if you get rear ended cause the insurance company will deny your claim .

 

did you guys know if you modify the crash beam then the claim can be denied too?
also the crash beam designed, if i remember right, to help under 10 mph impact?

 

Well it looks like my car will be keeping it's USDM bumper.

 

which company is this?

 

Last I checked, it wasn't anything more but another part to have to spend money on in any kind of impact worthwhile.

 

i just got rear ended, i talked my shop into putting on the jdm rear, he said no problem even though i told him they would have to take out the crash beam. kinda shady that he didn't have a problem doing that for me. hahhahaa

 

It just gets really complicated if you mod the beam, another friend of mine who took classes on car design, impact etc., said the way its engineered any crash gets absorbed throughout the car if you get hit in the rear, it distributes the impact to be absorbed in the whole body of the car.

anyone here with knowledge of the JDM crash beam??

 

its not a crash beam

 

none , because of the different safety standards

 

USAA, But understand that I'm talking about responsibly modified cars, not half-assed neglegent things like leaving out or removing safety equipment.

 

Its a support beam, not a crash beam.

The way a crash beam works is it has pistons that collapse to absorb some of the impact.

The bumper support or crash beams are designed to channel the force of impact into the strongest portions of the car, which are the frame rails, unibody cars also have these rails but their called something else because their part of the floor pan.

Without a crash beam, even low speed impacts can do alot of damage. But without anything, the entire force of any impact is transmitted directly to the area hit, so you will get the trunk floor buckling, rear panel, quarter panel, trunk lid, roof panel etcetera.. A $2500 repair could cost an another $5000 of additional damage.

Even at high speed, if you channel the energy through the strongest part of the car, the amount of damage (Within reason and speed) will be alot lower.

Once you go beyond that point, the impact will deform what are called crumple zones designed to collapse before the passenger compartment collapses. Once you deform the crumple zone stress points, you have rendered the car a total loss.

.... This is the story ....

Do what you want, but expect a car without crash beams to be worth alot less in that full loss part-out you'll end up doing when many of you guys inevitably wreck.

 

"anyone here with knowledge of the JDM crash beam??"

The car wasn't designed to have one. That is why no JDM crash beam..