Friday. October 5, 1990 - North Shore News - 25

AUTOMOTIVES
There’s a ‘right’ way to crash

WHEN MOST of us go car shopping we're usually inter- trolled rate — as though the
ested in style, design, performance and cost. But when front, rear and sides were shock —jacent parts. crash-testing it, our researchers
Tech-Cor looks over a vehicle, they zero in on features #bsorbers — protecting expensive ' ; have developed high quality,
. +e components and the people inside. he issues of repair versus cost-effective repair methods
that only a mechanic or autobody technician could love. Servicing and damage repair: replacement and costs Involved are’ which meet vehicle specifications
Tech-Cor, the research arm of | impacts of up to. cight kilometres On some vehicles, many parts important to R-CAR members and safety standards. We then
the Allstate Insurance Company, per hour. In higher speed crashes have to be removed to gain access and ICBC research has yielded teach these techniques to auto
participated in tast month's con- vehicles must collapse at a con- to a major component and repair- major advaeces in this area. By repair professionals.
ference held by the Research

Committee for Automobile Repair
(R-CAR), hosted by ICBC.
Members, all research arms of

ing one part means damaging ad- repairing a vehicle and = then

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discover the
difference in
prices and
selection, this

auio insurance companies, gather
once a year to share information
on their activities.

In their conference presentation,
Tech-Cor researchers reviewed a

check list they use to evaluate how
much damage a vehicle is likely to
suffer in an accident and how dif-
ficult and costly it will be to
fepair. A serious cas shopper
might find parts of their exercise
interesting.

Component Vulnerability: Black
boxes with two wires going in and
eight coming out are becoming
standard on most modern vehi-
cles. If these high-tech, expensive
components are mounted too close
to a vehicle’s exterior, even a
minor accident can result in huge
repair bills.

Exterior plastic body parts that
come in sections are preferred
because damage t9 one area
doesn’t result in replacement of a
large, more expensive component.

Resistance to and transfer cf
damage: R-CAR advocates mini-
mum bumper standards that allow
vehicle to escape damage from

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