101 reasons not to snatch a softroader

They have a longditudinal frame hidden within the monocoque body that run the full length, and are in fact almost a "semi-monocoque" if such a thing exists. (was included in my exeptions to the monocoque construction in the original post for this reason)

Now, let me see..............

I seem to remember a snow trip when someone found himself in pretty much the same situation, and he couldn't drive fwd either.

Would you know if that person bought himself a better spade yet???????

OWN3D rotflmao

if you wanna be smart, what does softroader have to do with the CAR in the photo?

Same construction method, most softies are based on car platforms (floorpans) anyway. (Kluger = Camry, Territory = Falcon, BMW X* = passenger models, RAV4 = Corolla, CRX = Integra, Tuscon/New Sportage = Elantra, etc.). They may be modified for use with rear diffs, etc., but they do not have any "stringers" holding them together along the floorpan, relying almost soley on the transverse welds in the floorpan for strength. Once these welds start to let go, they unzip like a zipper (seen in the video). A full chassis vehicle (or chassis in body vehicle) has the (obvious) chassis from front to back with adequate strength and support of the body to maintain structural integrity.

The floorpan of a vehicle is one of the most expensive parts of the vehicle to engineer, due to the contribution it makes to strength, suspension/handling, physical location of components, and load carrying. Everything else in the superstructure by it's nature is "windowdressing" in comparison. Reusing the floorpans (even with modifications) with new superstructures on them is a far cheaper way of designing a "new" vehicle than actually designing a floorpan from scratch for every model.

The main differnce in recent times has been the crumple zones leading to weaker ends of the vehicle to absorb the energy of an impact. There simply is nowhere to attatch a decent anchorage point as it's all designed to "fall to bits".

Didn't work. Have you just uploaded it?

Dave

No, not sure why it came up with that fault.

Try these links instead

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and even a longer one:
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That is soooo funny. Mainly because it wasn't my car.

Ouch.

RAOFLMAO

Dave

I doubt the hanger would be strong enough to rip the rear end off, they are usually only a piece of bent wire welded to the body (easily "unbent"). More likely the tiedown.

The reason I suggested the muffler/hanger was because it looks like the whole muffler got pulled off and with it the rear bar.