NEW f/rear bumper guards and side bar sets ready for shipment

[smartcarparts]

please visit the site to see this exclusive heavy duty/high polished chrome bumper set. no cutting easy install will protect your front and rear ends plus add a chrome look from the full length side bars.

FREE SHIPMENT ($60) TO CLUB MEMBERS IF YOU EMAIL ME TO ADVISE YOUR EBAY PURCHASE. ANYWHERE IN LOWER 48.

inventory in stock in south carolina and PA for immediate shipment

PAY PAL ACCEPTED.


THANKS for your continued support.


sherwin

[SMART]

Is this the product you are talking about?


http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/NEW-C...2534QQtcZphoto

It would help if you could post a specific link and image.

[smartcarparts]

ive tried but it never goes through

thanks for your suggestions. i really appreciate it.

[Dave777]

Originally Posted by smartcarparts

ive tried but it never goes through

thanks for your suggestions. i really appreciate it.

Post your photos to www.photobucket.com then reduce their size to "message board" size and post them here.

[dennyrex]

I have to wonder, though, what these would do to the pedestrian safety rating of the smart.

[Fredvon4]

dennyrex...obviously you do not want to hit a pedestrian under any configuration... Yea, I know that is an worthless DUH! statment....

Is there some concern that the bully bar front end might make you even MORE liable if you punt a pedestrian down the road?

Around here a giant 900 pound add on grill guard is certainly something you do not what to get hit by... but I have never heard of any increase of liability if you hit something with your truck with a giant grill/brush/deer/ect massive iron front add on...

I personally think most of the items in this category are more bling then function and thus will pass on the exceptionally high price for a non function item that only adds weight and drag....

[dennyrex]

I agree with Fredvon4 on the bling assessment, as on the financial and practical conclusion. However, my concern is for the pedestrian's health and well being, not the driver's liability.
there are laws in the US and canada and europe etc. for automotive designs to better "accommodate" vehicle-pedestrian "collisions", and the 451 was redesigned in part to meet these more stringent regulations. the bumper area has been redesigned to reduce the injury to the lower leg area of the pedestrian. adding on a big steel bar is going to more than cancel out the gains achieved by the designers.
any desire for "cow catchers" on a personal transport vehicle is too self-indulgent for my tastes, and the interest in the preservation of the vehicle's appearance vis-a-vis parking stunts with other vehicles taking priority over the safety of pedestrians seems telling.
at least in urban / sub-urban / ex-urban areas, I don't feel that pedestrian health is something we can afford to ignore

[Fredvon4]

I hear you but I would much prefer we get off our asses and be more honest about the training and skills required to be a licensed automobile or truck operator...

I do not think we can legislate, or engineer, away all the potential dangers... BUT we COULD insist on professional attentive drivers/operators IMO

[dennyrex]

and on that we are in complete agreement.

[JPaul]

Isn't this called a "roo bar"? Mostly used in Australia against stray kangaroos.