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| Safety for '94 Geo Metro (potential new owner) - any accidents to refer? | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jul 2 2015, 03:20 AM (2,468 Views) | |
| Stubby79 | Jul 2 2015, 01:58 PM Post #16 |
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That's ironic. There's my metro (or close enough) and there's my wife's SUV! Maybe she has something planned for me?
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| Mythstae | Jul 2 2015, 02:12 PM Post #17 |
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SUV was not at fault, nor, I believe, even involved. The driver at fault was in a Ford F-150, driving on a revoked license. |
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| Metromightymouse | Jul 2 2015, 02:17 PM Post #18 |
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And the Metro was stopped in traffic on the freeway. Another high speed impact. |
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| Car Nut | Jul 2 2015, 05:35 PM Post #19 |
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If you're worried about the early model, kiss your down pymt money goodbye & find a later model, or see if the dealer will find you one & buy it instead. |
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| perfesser | Jul 2 2015, 10:33 PM Post #20 |
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I did a small offset impact test once in my '63 Beetle. (That's the test most of the companies now are having trouble passing.) Northbound '77 Buick LaBarge turned in front of me as I entered the intersection heading south. We hit right headlight to right headlight. I saw his headlights flash in front of me, turned the wheel 90 degrees to the right and aimed for the brake pedal but never made it. He was doing about 15, and I was doing 25. When he hit, it pushed the right front wheel up through the floor into the passenger foot well. I had installed lap seat belts in the Bug when I bought it, and they saved my life! If I'd put in 3-point shoulder harnesses (which didn't really exist then) I might have avoided injury altogether. As it was, as I turned the wheel I was thrown forward and the seat belt hinged me at the waist. (Otherwise I'd have had a steering column implant as I went through the windshield ) I went forward, but still had a death grip on the steering wheel. I snapped the two sides (2-spoke wheel, turned 90 degrees) and wrapped them around the steering column. That just left the spoke vertical and I broke it off with my nose. The resulting traumatic brain injury knocked me out of school for a year and really messed my head up.The safest Metro is the one in the garage. You can drive as defensively as possible, but it only takes one idiot with your number on his license plate to mess up your whole day! I drive a Metro, but my other car is a tank! |
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| Metromightymouse | Jul 2 2015, 10:45 PM Post #21 |
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Thought of that story when I posted it. As well as several others I heard (or saw the end result of) when I was in the Beetle scene. |
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| Tim Keith | Jul 2 2015, 10:50 PM Post #22 |
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I bent a steering wheel in a square shape when I was rear ended by a Tahoe, not in a Metro. The rear end hit scares me the most as I can only watch the ongoing vehicle slam into the car. I blacked out from the impact and woke up in a helicopter. |
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| perfesser | Jul 3 2015, 02:13 AM Post #23 |
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Stopped in traffic once I heard tires squealing, looked in the mirror and watched an enormous blue aircraft carrier dock in the rear bumper of the guy behind me. I was driving a '68 Mercury Monterey, the car behind me was a Dodge Dart, and the one moving was a brand new '73 Cadillac Eldorado. I clamped down harder on the brakes and watched everything go into slo-mo. The Dodge was pushed into my rear end and buckled up about a foot in the middle. I was pushed forward from the impact about 3'. Being young and fit I was unhurt but my mother had a bad whiplash that bothered her for many years. The Caddy was a new model that should not have been shown in public yet, but a salesman just couldn't resist taking it for a quick spin, knowing he could sneak it back in and no one would be any the wiser. It and the Dart were both totaled. Edited by perfesser, Jul 3 2015, 02:17 AM.
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| Old Man | Jul 3 2015, 02:20 AM Post #24 |
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I would rather die while living than live as tho I am already dead.......... If you are that afraid of driving a Metro then don't purchase one. Matter of fact If you are that afraid then don't ever get in a car. Sit at home watching TV and shiver every time you think of doing anything outside of your front door. |
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| Cobrajet25 | Jul 3 2015, 05:38 AM Post #25 |
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In around 2005, my little brother got T-boned on the driver's door in my former 1995 4/5 sedan by a drunk woman who punched a four-way stop in a late model Hyundai Accent. She was doing about 30 mph, and it spun his car around a full 360 degrees. He walked away, but it was essentially one 2000-ish pound car hitting another. Metro was totaled, of course, only a month or so after I had sold it to him (and put new tires on it!). Wish I still had it. Had I known how relatively hard to find 4/5s are, I would have kept it. But I am glad it protected him the way it did. The later ones are much safer, and at only a small penalty with regard to fuel economy. |
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| EnergyLiger | Jul 6 2015, 09:19 PM Post #26 |
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Ahhh, alright. I can agree with the air bag consequences
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| EnergyLiger | Jul 6 2015, 09:27 PM Post #27 |
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Ahhh, alright!
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| EnergyLiger | Jul 6 2015, 09:30 PM Post #28 |
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Eh, I don't own a convertible due to the safety of it flipping over and crushing. Wonder if those could be installed in a 94 metro
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| EnergyLiger | Jul 6 2015, 09:31 PM Post #29 |
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| EnergyLiger | Jul 6 2015, 09:32 PM Post #30 |
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