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fuck that looks pretty damn painful. that's some nasty bruising. im not really sure how the fuck he hit that tbh.
i had to look at it several times before it made sense
the tree he hit that he was trying to run over was parrarel to the jeep, then when he ran it over it some how tipped it up wards and he was going fast enough and at the right angle to pierce the wall...
jesus christ, what are the odds man!?!
1/100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 ffs
lucky guy
+ i didnt read the thread entirley, but how did he get all the bruisings
no i understand what happens when you hit things. i dont know how the fuck he didnt see the big ass tree laying in the road.
if you read that really short paragraph posted it tells how he hit it and why he has bruises. go read.
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Originally Posted by darkspoon
I personally think the republican party has a higher chance of winning the election, with Palin and all.
Idiot, they have a 0% chance now because the election is over *moth
Anyways, yeah. Definitely crazy - but I'm not terribly surprised that this is with a Wrangler. I can't speak for all car brands (especially specifically just with the firewall) but it just seems as though their quality has been going down every year for the last 10-15 years. Jeep just isn't what they used to be...
well tbh spyder, i couldnt see any vehicle standing up to hitting a tree like that at the speed they were going.
but i do completely agree with you about the quality of Jeep these days. my gf has an '06 Liberty. that thing is a fuckin piece. its in the shop right now having the stearing column replaced. all the weather stripping has fallen off and been replaced. 4 or 5 sensors have gone bad and been replaced. the thing just hit 35k miles.
The firewall of any vehicle is extremely thin and easy to puncture. It doesn't matter if its a mid sized car, a jeep, or an SUV any one I've ever drilled through has been just as easy as the next. I can definitely see a tree sticking through a firewall even at a slower speed than this guy was traveling.
all the new toyota tundras have mud covers underneath that would stop from such a thing from happening, and dodge trucks have a sort of housing underneath it to protect components and things of the sort, similar to the tundras
Not so sure they could stop that from puncturing. They're just plastic...
no theyre metal... atleast on the tundras they are
yeah regular sheet metal like used on the firewall. actually it's probably thinner than the firewall. that tree would punch through it like a sheet of foil.
no its thicker
ffs ill take a pic tomorow lol
either im sure even if it was as thick as thefire wall is being only sheetmetal im sure it would've helped with the damage
I've seen what you're talking about Dest and it wouldn't do shit to help. That is to prevent mud from getting stuck up under your vehicle, just like the firewall is to prevent a fire in the engine compartment from getting to the passengers in the vehicle. It isn't designed to prevent something like a tree puncturing through it. Infact, its actually designed to be punctured easily so you can run wires through it as necessary. It's nothing more than sheet metal with fiber glass insulation.
Anyway, this whole thing just seems to me like he wanted to look like a bad ass driving over a tree when really he had plenty of room to simply drive around it.
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As unfortunate as it was to type that, right DS? :D
My 4runner has that kinda mud flap stuff too. I thought it was plastic - but I didn't run down to check. I think at best it could have deflected the path of the tree - but the odds of where it hit/punctured through was so crazy that it doesn't really matter anyways. Then again, the odds of someone being stupid enough to want to drive over a downed tree next to the road just to show off to the guys behind them are fairly high...so you never know...
lol, you dont see that comment made very often. :LQuote:
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