OK so there's a ton of back and forth on this site around removing crash bars, cutting them, etc. and the opposite end that swears the truck will explode if you do it.

Does anyone have any real life issues caused by removing the bars? Wrecks, etc?

 

I would think the intent of them is to keep the front wheel from entering the footwell area of the cabin in the event of a small overlap head on collision. They are one of the reasons that I bought a F150. My brother was in a head on with a drunk driver while driving the last style of GMC 3/4 ton extended cab. The front wheel ended up where his feet were and because of that he has limited use of one leg and less use of the other one because it was amputated just below the knee. I'm sure the outcome would have been better in a new Ford, but who knows. Leave your crash bars in place!

 

Do you think your going to get any other input than whats already out there?

skip to :52 second mark. They show the Scab before the crash bars where added. I would not mess with them. I take Safety over being cool when my family is in the truck.

 

Amazing...

 

Please don't remove the safety equipment. It's really there for a reason. Those of us who show up with the big heavy tools after you have a wreck greatly appreciate it.

Besides, it really sucks when you have bilateral tib/fib fractures, but I have to manipulate your feet to get them disentangled from the pedals and dash. The feeling of bone rubbing on bone is something we don't really enjoy. And all the Fentanyl in the world isn't going to keep you from feeling that pain.

 

You didn't hold back!

 

Take it from a guy that broke the bottom of his fibula and had grade 2 ligament tears in my ankle a year ago, tvsjr speaks the truth. I wouldn't want any damage to my lower legs ever again. I'd rather lose an arm than a leg. I'd rather have my arm not working any day of the week than one of my legs. There wasn't a day for about 3-4 months that I didn't wish it was an arm that was injured instead. I'm pretty good at this point (1 year mark), but I'm a lot slower and a lot more careful in everything that I do. I'll never be the same again...and it wasn't even that bad of an injury. Leave them on there.

 

Yeah, those simple little bars mean the difference between walking away from a crash, and never walking again. Ford didn't put them there because they had a surplus of steel!

 

Now I really have second thoughts on my 2015 SCAB ....sans crash bars.

 

Dont cut your crash bars... Or you end up with no legs like this guy.....