unhappy ending

[blackvx Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close blackvx]

Mmm, Salisbury you say? Then there is no other explanation needed! I would definitely say stolen. Did you and your family get out unscathed.

I'll up the ante and take 3 wheels at 2 cartons per wheel.

hahahaha, OK I'll knock this on the head. Its way to far for me to drive back to get any wheels ;-).

I wasnt involved in the accident at all either, just saw the aftermath.

[boomer52 2014 Track Topaz owner! Find all posts View Profile Close boomer52]

I wasnt involved in the accident at all either, just saw the aftermath.

Yes, know that ... but did you and your family get out of the suburb unscathed?

[blackvx Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close blackvx]

Yes, know that ... but did you and your family get out of the suburb unscathed?

Ahh sorry, bit slow on Monday mornings ;-). Yeah just and my car was still where I left it to :-)

[croozza Avid PP Poster! Find all posts View Profile Close croozza]

I have a feeling nobody was in the vehicle when it hit the tree. May have been stolen or had a drunk driver, put it in reverse while still at speed, broke the transmission so it had no gears and just rolled on down the road untill it hit something. With nobody in the vehicle the airbags woud not go off.

[Richoson Avid PP Poster! Find all posts View Profile Close Richoson]

Interested to find out if as the tree hit the middle and the bar crumpled around it, that the crumple zones on the bar didn't deform and then set off the airbags? I saw a 120 with a Sovereign bar rear end a Rodeo last week and the bags went off but the damage was across the whole front of the car and didn't look to have even reached the engine, maybe the comment about nobody in the car was correct and that the airbags only go off in conjunction with sensors in the seat?

See ya on the tracks, Richo. (Hopefully with no trees involved)

[wastegate Member Find all posts View Profile Close wastegate]

I have a steel ARB winch bar and checked out behind it and found what looks like the crash impact sensors, one each attached to the front of the chassis rails.

Resisted the urge to give one a hit to test the theory!!

From the crash pictures, perhaps the bar hadn't deformed sufficiently to trigger the sensor which I would guess are directly behind the rubber uprights on the front of the bar. A foot either side of that impact or a more square on whack across the whole bar may set them off.

[maxjj Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close maxjj]

have to agree about sensors not being triggered.
But as far as the bar collapsing like that, isn`t that the whole point, crumple zone, absorb impact ect. Its a pretty focused impact point, I would be more worried if the bar hadn`t deformed. Ultimately something has to give and it should be everything in front of the safety cell so its good to see that the driver cabin doesn`t look deformed at all and the doors should open ok.

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Was there blood on the steering wheel? This may or may not prove if there was someone in the driver's seat at the time of impact.

[yowie Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close yowie]

Would hope that a 150 would activate the air bags after a hit like that.

It would be interesting to hear Toyota's reason why the bags did not activate with one of their 'approved' bull bars fitted.

[blackvx Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close blackvx]

Was there blood on the steering wheel? This may or may not prove if there was someone in the driver's seat at the time of impact.

Nope, no blood on the steering wheel and no impact to the windscreen that I could see

[Peterpilot Avid PP Poster! Find all posts View Profile Close Peterpilot]

Perhaps if there been a winch or even just a winch cradle fitted, the force of the impact would have been transmitted to the crush cans and triggered the airbags. The standard bumper has a bar between the chassis rails, the Sovereign just has an alloy c-section. Toyota should have fitted all Sovereign bars with a winch cradle as standard for extra strength.

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I currently have a winch cradle kit sitting in the garage. It is quite a hefty unit (about 20kg) and will go towards providing extra strengthening to the alloy bullbar.

[BigDog816 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close BigDog816]

Nope, no blood on the steering wheel and no impact to the windscreen that I could see

It's like CSI PP.

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You need to get the UV lamps out to be sure the perp didn't clean the car after commiting the crime

[blackvx Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close blackvx]

ah damn I knew I forgot one step in my crime scene investigation regime