Why pickup truck and SUV bumpers will never get better become the question to many people. Bumpers have been for long being standing the battle between the automakers and the auto insurers with the consumers being stuck at the middle. The automakers require making it lighter, of lower-cost, the plastic bumpers with the sleek cab-forward design and the short overhangs. Insurers require being big. There is the need for strong bumpers which stick out for providing the maximum protection and the maximum profits of the insurance industry.
Many new pickup trucks conceal the bumpers very well that the consumers will not know they are there. The pole and the rear in the parking lot and the intersection together with the sudden bumpers actually becomes the important part for your life.
If you’ve to ram a pole in the Ford F150 which is going to 5 mph (8 km/h), you are looking for $2,042 in the damage together with all hassle which entails dropping the pickup truck off in a body shop, losing the deductible to an insurance company, or driving the rental pickup truck to work for the week when they fix the vehicle. But it is not only Ford for all pickup trucks being made nowadays. Not even one which has the energy absorbing bumper rear that can withstand the five-mph impact.
When you talk about the bumpers, person by the name Andy Rooney said that bumpers do not protect anything but the income of the automobile parts department.
The pickups can appear tough but they are clearly not such tough at any point when it dealing with preventing the damage in the low-speed crashes. These were the words said by Adrian Lund who is from the Insurance Institute for the Highway Safety. Nowadays, the average speed is five mph of the rear-into-pole accidents for the full size of the pickup trucks which costs $1,618 for the repair.
How about the SUVs. The SUVs can be advertised like the rugged where the manufacturers tell the potential buyers that they may drive the vehicles anywhere as an adventure lead them. The consumers may expect huge repair bills if they are unlucky to bump the so-called rugged cars and trucks into something of slow speeds.
Although there are many manufacturers who volunteer for the bumper performance information in window stickers but is only Hawaii and California. They are the only one who has the bumper performance to disclosure the laws which require the manufacturers to become specific about the performance capabilities.