Doesnt surprise me. Modern car designs are crap, hopefully more tests like this will lead to some change.
On a similar vain, I have noticed (on a Corsa D and now a Skoda Fabia II) that "side protection strips" are nothing of the sort. The edge of the door will hit a wall or another car before these so called protection strips.
I suppose its rocket science to design a door strip that works......
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i liked the way the Volvo 850/V70 went from having black plastic on 850 to painted strips on mk1 V70 back to black plastic on later ones as people complained it cost a lot for the paint when the doors got biffed lol.
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On a similar vain I have noticed (on a Corsa D and now a Skoda Fabia II) that "side protection strips" are nothing of the sort. The edge of the door will hit a wall or another car before these so called protection strips. I suppose its rocket science to design a door strip that works......
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Strange. I've never thought of the door strips as being there to protect the door edge paint. I've always thought they were there to protect the door skin from carelessly swung open doors from other cars!
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I've always thought they were there to protect the door skin from carelessly swung open doors from other cars!
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They don't even do that.
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>> The edge of the door will hit a wall or another car before these so called protection strips. Strange. I've never thought of the door strips as being there to protect the door edge paint. I've always thought they were there to protect the door skin from carelessly swung open doors from other cars!
Come on! Think about it!..... If your car door edge hits another car door, instead of your protection strip, isnt it likely to be the same the other way round?
There ought to be standards for things like these strips, just in the same way as Thatcham is proposing for bumper bars. i.e. height,width, compatibility tests.
Supermarket incidents and other low speed incidents should not mean a trip to the body shop for hundreds of pounds of repairs.
Also shouldnt something be done about towballs?
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