Door dent...is our sheet metal really this thin???

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04-23-2015, 02:49 PM

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Same when u close the doors they shake a lot

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04-23-2015, 04:38 PM

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Originally Posted by News in

For safety purposes, the doors and cab should crumple less. Everything around the cabin should crumple, not the cabin and the doors. A car from 1959 probably has lap belts, no airbags, and a steel dash. I believe the thin sheet metal is more to reduce weight and improve MPG's. Unless they started building them out of aluminum for crash test purposes.

True but believe it or not the cab is also designed to transfer energy in the event of an accident. I've seen it a hundred times on newer vehicles, say in a head on, the front will do its job and will crumple and absorb the energy but there will still be energy that gets transferred through the rockers and cab.

The design in modern autos is that they use every piece for some sort of structure for crashes. Think of it as strong in shear but weak in compression type of thing.

Personally I think the floppy door skins were the reason the new style has a crease added about midway up the door. I would have liked to see the structural crease on our body style.

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04-23-2015, 08:01 PM

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Actually the sheet metal being so thin has nothing to do with crash safety and everything to do with fuel economy...gotta save weight wherever possible for all those electronic doo dads we all want.

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Then how do you explain my 1985 Chevy with an 8 inch lift and 35s getting the same mpg as my stock 2013? I'm not buying the weight reduction. I'm buying the cheap materials theory or crash theory before weight reduction.

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04-23-2015, 08:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Eco-Mica

might want to try and take the inside door off (4 screws) and detach the elec. component for the window/lock. peel the plastic and you should be able to genitally push it out.

genitally push it out eh, lol

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04-23-2015, 08:42 PM

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might want to try and take the inside door off (4 screws) and detach the elec. component for the window/lock. peel the plastic and you should be able to genitally push it out.

haha that's awesome - i'd try it but i'm afraid i'd hurt my uhmmm self

MPG's = thin sheet metal. M1A1 gets poor MPG's, but very solid