Civic Rear built like a tank!!

[FWH]

Originally Posted by fergs

First post on here. I had the pleasure of a VW Polo parked in my rear end this morning, hit me at approx. 55mph ! honda dealer repair centre took one look at it and car is in for a 4 weeks. Polo was a write off, Conclusion, Civic Rear End is built like a tank, any "lesser car" I would be sending this post from a hospital bed !

Hope everyone was ok!

Glad to hear the Civic was repairable.

[alanwalne]

Originally Posted by fergs

First post on here. I had the pleasure of a VW Polo parked in my rear end this morning, hit me at approx. 55mph ! honda dealer repair centre took one look at it and car is in for a 4 weeks. Polo was a write off, Conclusion, Civic Rear End is built like a tank, any "lesser car" I would be sending this post from a hospital bed !

That is the anti whiplash headrests doing their job.

[Sandozer]

Originally Posted by fergs

First post on here. I had the pleasure of a VW Polo parked in my rear end this morning, hit me at approx. 55mph ! honda dealer repair centre took one look at it and car is in for a 4 weeks. Polo was a write off, Conclusion, Civic Rear End is built like a tank, any "lesser car" I would be sending this post from a hospital bed !

That does say something about the strong structure.... My bump was at around 20mph.... Glad your Ok..!

[dobbie]

I too had someone hit me up the rear at a roundabout, last night, but to my suprise could not even find a scratch, upon expection. Even when I got home and had a second look I could not find any visable marks.

Well built car.

[AU_CTR]

Sorry to hear about you accidient any pics to check it out

[streakybird]

Originally Posted by slick

Strange title i know,

but basically i was involved in a 5 car pileup on my drive to work on monday, i slowed down in heavy traffic and the other 4 people behind me didn't and they all went up my backside.

the car behind me hit me straight on, but to look at the back of my car you would hardly know. the plastic grill in the bottom section has partially pooped out, but other than that nothing.

its due to go infor a full check with the insurance company, to see if anything underneathi s damaged, but i've been really impressed. don't know what the front would be like in a crash, but the back is certainly well built as the 206 that hit me did not look good.

Had exactly the same thing happen to me recently, ''she'' came at me 30mph into the back of the car, whilst at a roundabout, and not a scratch! The most annoying thing was, she was so shocked at what she had done, she didnt even get out of the car! I had to be the first out, (bearing in mind i was absolutely cr*ping myself whilst walking around to inspect the damage) and to my astonishment saw NOTHING! not even a scratch. I had to call work and tell them i was in an accident and to show up without any evidence... (obviously happy about that). Anyways the woman who hit me... still in shock had a teenager in her car, who had the nerve to get out and check the front of there car for damage... urm... hello!!! you hit me!!!

Well to this day... all is well and i dont say this often but i gotta kiss that backside now and again...

[alanwalne]

With a towbar fitted, if anyone tries to kiss the back of mine then it is bye-bye to their radiator!!!!!

[J. Derek Riddell]

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