Becuase they really are'nt that needed.

 

..unless you get rear-ended?

 

local guy here got rear ended without a crash bar and his insurance wouldnt cover it.. and the other guys insurance didnt either... so now the blame is on him for his car as well as the other...


how that works idk... its not his fault he got hit, but thats the result

 

I have a guy that made me a crashbeam with license plate mount. It's stiffer than the stocker, weighs 8.5 pounds, and serves to create rigidity in the rear....anyone who takes off the rear beam suffers in the twisties believe me.

He needs $400 shipped and you get some badass instructions and another goodie just for the JDM rear. I'd be glad to get you in touch with him if you PM me.

 

Bejesus...

It costs approximately $60 and an hour to have a fabrication shop modify your stock crash beam to fit the JDM bumper.

there are a total of 6 cutting blade cuts less than an inch long, 6 weld spots to drill out, then 4 weld beads to lay.

If I had the tools here in FL (and I will when the movers arrive), it would take me less than 20 minutes to do the job myself. With a fabrication shop that's never done it before, expect to be charged an hour labor for the job.

Oh, and when I say fabrication shop, most muffler guys will do it for you after hours, any machine shop will do it, or just look for "welders" in your yellow pages.

I have NO CLUE why anyone doesn't just do this simple little modification and wants to spend hundreds of dollars on something that can be done in a way that holds factory appearance and functionality for so cheap

 

Well said

 

guys lets be real about it . As soon as you modify or use other crash beam then the"factory" , the insurance company can decline your claim ,if they want to.
I know many guys got rear ended including me. we all got paid .
I personally never heard anybody declined, untill the post above. Who said he got declined. Matter a fact the Evo wasn't designed to have one from the beginning.
And europe and japan have a safety standard too. Just make sure you know it. So no structural designed point on the evo to place one. If you ever removed one ,you know what i'm talking about. Even the Elise made it the us. without one...
But there is a long thread over this debate already in this forum.

 

The rear crash beam isn't bolted to the frame. Its bolted to sheet metal. It might save you from scratching your truck if you back into a garbage can but it isn't going to do jack **** in a true crash.

Again.... its attached to sheetmetal and as far as safety is concerned its pretty much useless. Its intended to save you a few bucks in the event that you have a very light rear impact.

You guys claiming insurance companies not covering crash damage are full of it.

 

I got rearended with my jdm bumper at about 20mph with me standing still. It did about 7500 dollars worth of damage, including my aftermarket bumper and Greddy ti exhaust. I had zero problems gettting everything covered by my insurance, and the body shop said they dind't think the crash beam would have done a bit of good at that speed anyway.