So lucky!!!!

[wizard124]

I had just picked up my son from school.. Down at the first stop light, behind a Prius.. Stopped.

The Prius goes in reverse and hits me just as I am laying on the air horn.. Lucky, no damage! Just enough clearance with my pushed in front bumper and didn't hit my hood.
Warren

[AriK]

The Spider is a car that you always must assume is invisible to other drivers.

[RRoller123]

Lucky no damage! +1 for keeping the original federal bumper on?

[spidernut]

That was a close call. It would be a horrible shame to see your Spider damaged after all the work you put into her. Your situation is one of the reasons that I've not gone bumper-less.

[spiderdan]

Glad to hear there was no damage Warren.
What I am wondering is why did the Prius go in reverse to begin with?
Don't know how to drive stick on a hill?
Thought "R' was for race?
I would assume they had a wet drivers seat after that air horn blast.
Hope they apologized profusely and at least offered to buy you a beer (or even better, a case)
+1 for the bumpers

[4uall]

apparently, it happens a lot



Glad to hear everybody is okay

[wizard124]

Glad to hear there was no damage Warren.
What I am wondering is why did the Prius go in reverse to begin with?
Don't know how to drive stick on a hill?
Thought "R' was for race?
I would assume they had a wet drivers seat after that air horn blast.
Hope they apologized profusely and at least offered to buy you a beer (or even better, a case)
+1 for the bumpers

Of course I jumped out and expected to see the front of the hood creased. She gets out of the Prius ....said she couldn't see me (although I had a clear view of the driver side mirror). I don't think her reverse lights worked either or I would have honked a bit sooner. She decided she needed to turn left but needed to back up to clear a pedestrian island.....

It could have turned really ugly........to see a grown man cry like that

[RRoller123]

Wonder how the bumpers would have performed, had they been tightened in closer to the body, with a bolt to secure them in place, as I have seen often done here. Just curious if they still have any reflexive action after that modification? I suppose the bolt would shear pretty easily, and then there might still be some action left in the bumper shocks? Using a nice soft bolt, to act like a shear pin, would be advised in this mod I think.

Pete

[zachmac]

Wonder how the bumpers would have performed, had they been tightened in closer to the body, with a bolt to secure them in place, as I have seen often done here. Just curious if they still have any reflexive action after that modification? I suppose the bolt would shear pretty easily, and then there might still be some action left in the bumper shocks? Using a nice soft bolt, to act like a shear pin, would be advised in this mod I think.

Pete

Wouldn't work the way you describe as you drain all the fluid out to tuck them. Absent the "set screw" holding them in position they slide pretty easily; no shock effect left at all. Therefore the biggest hardest bolt or screw is a better idea.

[RRoller123]

Got it. Thanks. Not taking mine off.

Just curious, is it possible to drain just part of the fluid? To retain some of the shock action?

[KevAndAndi]

This is why I won't be removing my tube bumpers. I am considering the bumper tuck, and it's good to know that they do afford at least some protection when tucked. I think that's a good compromise between aesthetics and protection from at least some slow-rolling impacts. (Ain't gonna help you when a lifted pickup truck and its trailer hitch make a nice crease between your hood bumps.)