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u using fibre glass copy front bar??

Wouldnt think a genuine bar/factory plastic would crack like that.

Ive seen cars running genuine kits and hit much bigger things and come out less worse for wear then that.

plastic won't crack like that no, but the paint can still crack if it flexes too much. i put my pulsar in a ditch one night (was doing a 3 point turn on a dirt road and couldn't see a drain on the side of the road and the car just slowly slipped down into it). the front bar was pushed back against the radiator support (so it moved about 15cm) and had the weight of the car pushing down on it. once we got the car out and took it to the carwash to wash the dirt off there wasn't any damage at all. a few fine scratches and that was it. i was expecting the front bar to be stuffed as well as the radiator supports etc, but they are all fine. i also hit a hare at 80kmh in my vx commodore and didn't even mark the paint.

the problem with some fibreglass bars is that they are so flimsy. i have seen some that just about break if you pick them up by 1 end (they flex too much and are so thin they just about tear). however that can be a good thing if you hit something with the corner of the bar it will just flex. i made mine so thick along the bottom that you could just about hold it out straight just by holding it at 1 end.

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I hit a fully grown hare at 120Ks, and iv hit another at 100. Lots and lots of near misses with rabbits too.

f**ked my front bumper and went through the plastic that starts under the front bumper and ends at the tires and finally went under the wheel which spat his guts underneath the rest of my car.

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Rabbits and hares are totally f**kn retarded animals and you should never think that they are moving out of your way, the stupid shit for brains things will run off to the side and then turn around and run in front of you OR if you see them on the side of the road they will run onto the road (i don't know why) and commit suicide.

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Chickens are dumb too

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I see your hare at 90km/h and raise you a coyote at 320km/h

clicky if you're not squeamish

http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s245/54...uff/coyote2.jpg

http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s245/54...tuff/coyote.jpg

hahah holy shit.

wat new front bar you getting on there? insurance would cover the custom paint work and everything yeah?

hahah holy shit.

wat new front bar you getting on there? insurance would cover the custom paint work and everything yeah?

its called the CM4 , its on carmate.com.au not a bar that everyone is gonna like but ive fallen in love with it lol and yeah graphics are all covered too :)

ouch cara, hope you get it sorted out soon :)

was it in the day or night time?

yeah she goes in on monday to start having things fixed, getting my bonnet underneath resprayed and parts of my engine bay resprayed (at my own cost tho) so gonna start doing that from monday and then hopefully new bar will have arrived by end of next week

was at dusk....but the thing is was the only animal i saw on the road at dusk :D

haha were u freaking out.. most of the chicks i kno would be so freaked out if they hit a little bunny hahah

ps: just looked at the bar on carmate, my mates got the same on his 34, looks pretty nice, his cars sitting real low aswell.. not long until its got countless cracks :D

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Weird, I hit a fox pretty hard at 80-90kph back about 18 months ago .. barely did any damage at all - factory bumper though, so I guess not likely to shatter or anything like fibreglass. I just needed to replacement bumper....

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Mostly I was just annoyed that if I had of been doing the speed limit, or on a straight bit of road I probably would have missed it. Unfortunately it was 1am in the morning driving back to Adelaide, I was taking it easy and on a sweeping bend so I didn't really feel safe swerve to avoid the fox when I caught it in my headlights before it hit.

Anyways - good luck with the repairs Cara. Love to see pics of the completed new front bar :P

just patch up your existing bar and put it back on >_<

too many hairline fractures thru out the whole bar so probably not really worth it......as soon as Blue (my crash repairer) had a look he said it would be easier to get a new one......

it will give me something to do aswell.....ill fix the bar (spend a lot of time on it) and then sell it maybe......if i take it as far back as possible and strengthen it up as much as i can it will reduce any fractures coming up hopefully :down:

I collected a hare also one night, straight into the intercooler. I must say the bunny came off second best. Not a dint or crack/break on the front bar and the cooler was fine. Although there is a slight warp in the mesh. I was pulling tufts of bunny fur out afterwards though hahaha

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