Roof metal = embarrassingly weak? - Page 2 - Toyota GR86, 86, FR-S and Subaru BRZ Forum & Owners Community

Laika · 10-14-2012, 10:14 PM

The roof is 0.6mm thick steel and not aluminum.

MmmHamSandwich · 10-14-2012, 10:24 PM

I dunno about all that but I once tried to catch a peanut M&M in my mouth that a friend tossed and it hit one of my incisors and oh man did it hurt. Sorry that's all I got for ya.

But if you are for real I greatly fear falling acorns.

Mr.Jay · 10-14-2012, 10:27 PM

Candy denting cars is hard to believe

DR1FT · 10-14-2012, 10:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Laika

The roof is 0.6mm thick steel and not aluminum.

Any credible resources on this. Not trying to start something jst really wondering. And how about the fenders?

20valvewynn83 · 10-14-2012, 10:36 PM

So what your trying to say is don't park under a rainbow

Laika · 10-14-2012, 10:37 PM

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Originally Posted by DR1FT

Any credible resources on this. Not trying to start something jst really wondering. And how about the fenders?

No worries. Always good to question sources. The two part Subaru BRZ development video describes the different grades of steel used for the various parts of the car. The 0.6mm part I got from Nino Karotta in the "From Barcelona to Budapest" video.

http://jalopnik.com/5923442/from-bar...a-toyota-gt-86

Crap. The more I think about the roof being steel the less I think that's right. Where's my magnets?

Edit: If you're watching the Nino video you wanna watch around the 10:02 mark.

xwd · 10-14-2012, 10:48 PM

Okay I tried this because I didn't believe it. Unless you managed to shoot a skittle out of a gun or your brother threw it 100 feet in the air I don't think it was the skittle. I do have a nice ding in my hood from an acorn which fell from about 40 feet up, but its significantly larger than a skittle...

fistpoint · 10-14-2012, 10:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Laika

The roof is 0.6mm thick steel and not aluminum.

60% as thick as a stamped receiver AK-47. That should be enough to handle some skittle action if less than double can handle the pressures of a firearm.

I vote for "dent was already there".

xdbuix · 10-14-2012, 10:52 PM

so question for you guys with dents in the hood. Basically, is it safe to say if i live in an area where there's acorns, i should expect the hood to get dented because of the weaker aluminum?

jmaryt · 10-14-2012, 11:21 PM

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Originally Posted by mrha

Agreed otherwise bird poop would destroy our roofs

geeeez! hope not!

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Originally Posted by azian_advanced

didn't think the roof was made of aluminum too.. thought it was just the hood.

thought the roof was made out of "high strength" steel?

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Originally Posted by DBacon1052

You should go outside and try it!

defecating on one's own roof will be inconclusive,
as it will depend on the size,AND hardness of the stool,and also
the stool has to be released form a great height,such as from an airplane,or a helicopter!

jmaryt · 10-14-2012, 11:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Xanatos

Negating velocity loss due to air resistance: Speed of Skittles going up = Speed of Skittles coming down. Depending on how high he threw it up theres a pretty good chance it was going faster than you think. Skittles also have the hard shell which takes quite a bit of pressure to crush. If it were M&M's the shell would have cracked to expend the engergy and thus have less impact on your roof.

There have been reports of acorns falling from trees and squirrels throwing acorns at the twins leaving dents too.

i always thought the squirrels liked the car! haven't encountered
that ...yet!..maybe they just wanted to go for a ride,and were alerting
you to that?

Blue86 · 10-14-2012, 11:33 PM

I know a small stone that left a chip in my bonnet also managed to dent it at the same time

Spaceywilly · 10-14-2012, 11:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Blue86

I know a small stone that left a chip in my bonnet also managed to dent it at the same time

The hood is aluminum and dents easily. It's basically a big soda can. Same thing on my WRX. Even then I don't think a Skittle would dent it unless that guy who jumped from space accidentally dropped it.

DaJo · 10-15-2012, 12:03 AM

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Originally Posted by ahausheer

That would leave a sour taste in my mouth.

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