|
I would argue that the other bumper mounted option is no more "beefy" than ours, considering it's made of the same thickness of metal. In fact, the design of the metal backing plate on theirs is a lot less strong than our metal backing plate, just by design.
The U-Bracket that bolts between the tow hook bolt and our backing plate is probably the most ingenious part of our design. Not only does it allow for the most amount of adjustability so you can put the plate just where you want it, but it will act as the relocation kits "crumple zone" in the event of a hit. If that somehow gets destroyed, you call us, and for a couple of bucks we'll send you another one.
If someone backs into you hard enough to do damage to the plate holder, if you had no plate holder in place they would probably do the exact same amount of damage, scuff, scratch, remove paint, whatever. If someone is backing into you hard enough to damage the relocation kit and push the plate into the bumper causing scratches from the plate, chances are they were going to do damage to your car without the kit.
The bolt itself would have to take a very severe hit to damage it, and even then I don't know if you're going to do any significant damage to it. You have to remember that these tow hook mounts are literally designed to pull the entire weight of the car, and I wouldn't be surprised if you could lift it vertically with it.
So from experience (thousands of these sold, we make them for a lot of cars), I've never heard of anyone complaining about "massive damage from a slight tap." And I'd rather have them damaging the relocation kit, than my car. So I don't think you really have anything to worry about. Also, typically people hit the dead middle or driver side of you car when parallel parking, which the relocation kit is out of the way of.
Chase
Engineering
|