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Originally Posted by PandaSPUR
This thread has me interested in the GrimmSpeed kit though. @ GrimmSpeed do you have any pics of how flush the plate is on a BRZ with your kit? I'm using some random no-name kit on my car and the plate sticks out a bit more than I'd like. |
Post #26 shows what it looks like when mounted flush, and you can see it is completely flush. These are designed to be flush, and then we add spacers so you can sit them however you want. An example of that is the first picture in Post #28.
An example showing how it is impossible for the "4000lb bending from the side, unholy damage" situation to occur. This would assume that the front bumper didnt exist and that you were able to get an appreciable push on the tow hook bolt itself, from an angle that is only possible to get without a front bumper, because if you had one on, the offending car would already be contacting the entirety of the front bumper, making a further push impossible. In order to cause any sort of damage to the threads you would need a substantial hit, nearly straight into the plane of the tow hook itself.
Once again, the U-bracket acts as a fuse, and will bend first, before anything else does, saving any sort of damage to the tow hook threads. After that bends the licence plate would end up against the front bumper, and any sort of additional pushing would be on the front bumper, not completely through the tow hook. The tow hook bolt portion itself does not extend past the front bumper. I have explained this before, and was ignored and then discredited. But obviously these are the two reasons why the "fake physics" being pitched are so out of hand.
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