(Censored) cheapo unibody cars!!!

[JDgreen227]

What a bunch of lazy kids. With 4 of them there, why hook up the car? They could have pushed it out or in 5 minutes with shovels, dug it out. Not exactly a bunch of rocket scienctist's.

They probably watched another YouTube video of somebody pulling out a full frame vehicle and figured "so that's how you do it...." :laughing:

 

[keegs]

never did this but it only took a minute to find it.

How to Tow an HHR Rear End Out of a Ditch | eHow.com

 

[ray66v]

You think towing on is bad, try fixing one after someone folds it up. :thumbsup:

 

[5030]

never did this but it only took a minute to find it.

How to Tow an HHR Rear End Out of a Ditch | eHow.com

To me, the HHR looks like an oversized turd anyway.....

Leave it to an American to come up with the term 'Unibody'. Sounds like an aging Hollywood film mogul with numerous body tucks......:laughing:

Europeans call it momocoque construction.

I remember back in the 60's when you had to add a subframe to muscle cars with unibody to keep them from torque twisting....

Basically a cheap way of automobile construction not that auto's are cheap to begin with....

 

[JDgreen227]

never did this but it only took a minute to find it.

How to Tow an HHR Rear End Out of a Ditch | eHow.com

Thanks for the link, but my OP was a rant in general about ALL unibody cars, not just the HHR.

I spent about five minutes looking at the rear underside of the HHR I posted about, and sawnothing like that attachment point on either side. AND, as I have mentioned at least twice, HOW DO YOU PULL ON THE VEHICLE WITHOUT THE TOW STRAP TENSIONING UPWARD AND DAMAGING THE PLASTIC BUMPER FASCIA???

And Ehow says you can only reach one of the two factory installed "recovery points"....well, to me that means you would be putting double the stress on the one recovery point available.

 

[jmurray01]

So there wasn't even a towing eye!?

Wow... That really is unpractical.

 

[JDgreen227]

So there wasn't even a towing eye!?

Wow... That really is unpractical.

Penny pinching, big time. And if you read the other posts here, where I quoted Bison as saying "shiny little coke can cars...."

YUP.

From what I have observed, the majority of ditched or stuck vehicles need to be recovered from the rear side. And for those who think a damaged rear bumper fascia is cheap to fix or replace...my wife backed my Buick into something four years ago and punched a fist sided hole in the rear fascia. They told it could not be patched....$950 for the new part, labor, and paint. For a plastic bumper fascia....

 

[Mighty Dodge]

My 97 Dodge Stratus has a tow ring below the front and rear bumpers. Used it to a few years ago winch it on my trailer when the tie rod end came apart.

 

[czechsonofagun]

Was it hidden somewhere in the bumper? You know plastic plug over a hole you are supposed to screw an eye into? Plenty of new cars come like that.

 

[chucko]

Yes chucko thats exactly right US cars did too before the 80's!

I cuss the same thing JDGreen is cussing now I have to regularly pull cars into my shop that have broke down and were towed to me etc that have no place to pull on whatsoever. Its ridiculous even pickups some dont have a decent pull spot in front. (07 Titan worked on recently comes to mind)

Guess we don't export ours anymore