Some one backed into the 2014 RAV's rear end in a parking lot. Hit the fake bumper and wiped out the rear door. The bumper did not save the body or door from major damage in anyway and even the bumper mounts welds got cracked. About 2,500 bucks worth of damage and a bump and skip in the parking lot in Hill jack land was up to me to fix, and the cops just ask if I had insurance and wanted to see my card before even taking a report, "like it was my fault ".
Only 1,200 miles on a new car and what should have been a minor bumper ding or scratch was a huge repair job . New Fake plastic bumper and Mounting brackets, Lights, Door and all the dam plastic pins that hold it all together. Tell the Rats in DC we want real 2 .5 mile per hour no damage bumpers back. (at one time they (now Crooks ) Make auto makers have 5 mile per hour no damage bumpers. All the New Junk has gone fake Plastic do nothing bumpers now. So a New Car owner must go out and buy an after market bumper protector and have it installed by a back yard mechanic, and even the Add on bumpers are far from being attractive or made right.
I have a 2002 Subaru Forester and my wife was driving to the Doctors Office when rear ended hard. She took a fast look at the bumper and could see nothing wrong and went off speeding to her Doctor's office. When she got home she told me about the impact. I took a look at the rear end and under the bumper. The plastic cover on the bumper was crazed and had a slight pushed in place, however under the plastic the steel "Real Bumper" was bent in good. But It saved the rear door and body from any damage whatsoever. I found a replacement bumper and strut at a local Junk Yard and installed it. Heated the plastic cover with a Hair dryer and popped out the minor dent. Too bad all the new junk can't have a real Bumper like even a 2002 Subaru had, at least as good.
Once Ralph Nader got the Government Dictatorship Regime, also known as crooks, to pass a Law forcing Auto Makers to install decent Bumpers, Front and Rear that could protect the car body from any damage at 5 mph and repairing the bumper could not cost over a hundred bucks. The Auto Lobby bribed all the DC rats and the law changed to 2.5 mph and 500 bucks damage was fine. There must not even be a law as to what junk the Auto makers build now, but there are more super rich elected crooks in DC now than ever before. And few if any care about us, anyway shape or form. And you are taxed to death paving their pockets for their run away greed.
Time to create a new system, what we have is broken and not repairable anymore. Its time for another 1776 and Concord Bridge .
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Some one backed into the 2014 RAV's rear end in a parking lot. Hit the fake bumper and wiped out the rear door. The bumper did not save the body or door from major damage in anyway and even the bumper mounts welds got cracked. About 2,500 bucks worth of damage and a bump and skip in the parking lot in Hill jack land was up to me to fix, and the cops just ask if I had insurance and wanted to see my card before even taking a report, "like it was my fault ".
Only 1,200 miles on a new car and what should have been a minor bumper ding or scratch was a huge repair job . New Fake plastic bumper and Mounting brackets, Lights, Door and all the dam plastic pins that hold it all together. Tell the Rats in DC we want real 2 .5 mile per hour no damage bumpers back. (at one time they (now Crooks ) Make auto makers have 5 mile per hour no damage bumpers. All the New Junk has gone fake Plastic do nothing bumpers now. So a New Car owner must go out and buy an after market bumper protector and have it installed by a back yard mechanic, and even the Add on bumpers are far from being attractive or made right.
I have a 2002 Subaru Forester and my wife was driving to the Doctors Office when rear ended hard. She took a fast look at the bumper and could see nothing wrong and went off speeding to her Doctor's office. When she got home she told me about the impact. I took a look at the rear end and under the bumper. The plastic cover on the bumper was crazed and had a slight pushed in place, however under the plastic the steel "Real Bumper" was bent in good. But It saved the rear door and body from any damage whatsoever. I found a replacement bumper and strut at a local Junk Yard and installed it. Heated the plastic cover with a Hair dryer and popped out the minor dent. Too bad all the new junk can't have a real Bumper like even a 2002 Subaru had, at least as good.
Once Ralph Nader got the Government Dictatorship Regime, also known as crooks, to pass a Law forcing Auto Makers to install decent Bumpers, Front and Rear that could protect the car body from any damage at 5 mph and repairing the bumper could not cost over a hundred bucks. The Auto Lobby bribed all the DC rats and the law changed to 2.5 mph and 500 bucks damage was fine. There must not even be a law as to what junk the Auto makers build now, but there are more super rich elected crooks in DC now than ever before. And few if any care about us, anyway shape or form. And you are taxed to death paving their pockets for their run away greed.
Time to create a new system, what we have is broken and not repairable anymore. Its time for another 1776 and Concord Bridge .
- davtvguy, Reynoldsburg, OH, US