99 + ARB + Deer + 75mph (1 Viewer)
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You can still drive the car. Without the bar you couldn't.
What did it feel like on impact? Did you drive over it then? And as the previous poster said, your car probably would've been totaled.
That would have destroyed the front of the truck without the bumper.
Still don't like that it twisted. I'd like to see a comparable impact with the slee bumper.
Glad you're okay. Sorry for the doe though.
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The slee bumper wouldnt have protected against a deer at all would it? I imaging a deer would go over the top of it. This deer was big it mostly hit above the bumper height. Its head took out my Hella.
Yea, I do feel bad for the Doe.
Yea, I do feel bad for the Doe.
Klaus,
The slee bumper doesn't even offer any protection for the grill/hood/lights. It seems almost certain that it would not have protected the cruiser better. I think you're expecting too much out of a bumper if you impact a still object at 75 mph and are disappointed to find you've sustained some damage.
The slee bumper doesn't even offer any protection for the grill/hood/lights. It seems almost certain that it would not have protected the cruiser better. I think you're expecting too much out of a bumper if you impact a still object at 75 mph and are disappointed to find you've sustained some damage.
Trunk Monkey
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Comparing the ARB and Slee is apples and oranges. The bumper did it's job, the occupants were able to drive home. Hitting a deer, even a small one, is still hitting a couple hundred pounds and there is a huge amount of energy involved in that. Glad you're okay and it didn't flip up into the windshield.
I'm mildly surprised the airbags didn't deploy at 75mph.
Trunk Monkey
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Why would they, they're activated based on deceleration of the whole vehicle, and very sudden decel at that. The sensor is under the center console. There's no contacts in the bumper that you can hit with a baseball bat and make the airbags go off.
IIRC at one time there was a warning on ARB bumper stating your air bag may not work the same with the bumper
Ugh, it would be silly to think it would.
I hit an 8 point Friday night awhile traveling about 30 mph. Zero damage. Deer did runoff, so impact wasn't terribly severe. Still,I was glad bumper was I'm place.
ARB bumpers are air bag compatible per their website. Sucks to think that if you're traveling 70+mph and hitting a solid object (deer, car, tree, etc..) without hitting the brakes first, your air bags won't deploy. Hmm
bluecruiser
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Airbag deployment at that speed would have made it much worse. Most likely lose control then much worse damage. It worked like it should have.
Trunk Monkey
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Again, it's not brake dependent. There's a sensor in the middle of the vehicle that detects velocity and sudden negative changes to that, amongst a few other things. The damage to the bumper isn't surprising considering the mass of the object. The airbags not going off isn't either taking into account the truck probably didn't change speed much at all at the impact. There was someone in the 80 section that hit a stationary construction crane on the highway doing 75 in an ARB'd 80 series. They lived, airbags worked, truck was demolished.
The 80 series bumpers had the sticker and it was merely because ARB didn't shell out the pile of money required for crash testing that bumper and getting it certified.
