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Originally Posted by ripvanrando
Say in a real t-bone scenario, the car's bumper crashing into your car isn't much of a factor in occupant safety. Whether your car has ultra high strength steel, carbon structures, side air curtains, and other devices to redirect energy are what matters. The offending car's bumper is barely an ornament and is there to protect cooling systems, lights, etc. on low speed bumps and thumps in a parking lot. It is not designed to protect occupants in a real collision.
So, how is something that isn't broken fixed?
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Some of the aftermarket bumpers I've seen on big diesels are thick plate steel. These are definitely not designed to just redirect energy and would do a ton of damage to the occupants of another vehicle.