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Crossmember Bars

Sorry Larry, my 16v had US bumpers it whole life and cracks with 120K.

I put on eurobumpers the same time I installed one of Erics bars.  The amount of stiffness it added was easily noticable.  Before the bar, I could grab the front crossmember with my hand and wiggly it about an 1".  I've got video to prove that.  The addition of Eric's bar made a world of difference in terms of stiffening up the front end.  If the car didn't end up getting totaled, it would have been around a lot longer with Eric's bar than without (Probably would have gone the same way that Rich Deede's black scirocco did).

-Doug
  
>From: Larry Fry [mailto:rocco16@sbcglobal.net]
>Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 07:29 PM
>To: 'Brian McGarvey'
>Cc: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: Re: Crossmember Bars
>
>
> Meaning some sort of stress was put on them... Like not
>changing your motormounts for 20yrs..., getting in wrecks, taking the
>strong a$$ front bumper off and replacing it with a decrotive peice of
>eurotrash. :-)...
>Brian
>
>
>
>Hmmmm. Very interesting point.  The Euro bumpers, I mean.  Brian may have 
>something
>
>How about a nice, constructive poll?
>
>How many have Eurobumper?
>How many have US-spec bumpers?
>How many have cracked crossmembers?
>How many don't?
>
>I'll start:
>
>US-spec.......no cracks......220,000miles.  (But I just put Eurobumpers 
>ON!!!...this may get interesting.)
>
>Larry
>sandiego16v
>
>
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