These bumper guards REALLY DO work. Have used them for years...but some are much better than others...have to be made to cushion the impact. Saved me at least 2 or 3 times...It won't solve all hard bumps but will some. Only caution I had to make is the Mavrick is too long for my garage, and my garage door was hitting the bumper guard.
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I heard that there are a lot of hit & runs in Mexico. Is that true ? I've witnessed a few here also.Underneath structural damage?
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I keep my bike rack hitch at the tow hitch receiver
Yeah! I'm aware of that as well, I'm retired so, I don't leave the house everyday. Car insurance policy is not mandatory around here, it is mandatory if the car is financed by the Bank, but after that it's optional. So it's complicated to be involved in a car crash
Surprising, but cities and states are making laws making it illegal to drive around with a trailer hitch hanging out due to excessive damage it can cause from a minor rear end bump. You can google it to see more and more states passing such laws.This is partly why we have kept the trailer hitch on our Maverick.
Was sitting at an intersection waiting to turn right. Light was red going across, but green for left turn signals. Lady behind me wasn’t paying attention, saw the light change, thought we had the go and drove right into the truck. Trailer hitch went through her front bumper and pierced her radiator. You could see the trail of coolant as I drove into the gas station lot. Her car was damaged, while I just needed to replace the rear crash pad and bumper. Could have been a lot worse if the trailer hitch was not there. Trailer hitch has not come off since then
Wow I never heard that before.
Retired from the legal field...but where it comes up mostly...is vehicle manufacturers still have bumper specifications they are required to provide...Adding a hitch ball puts the burden of "excessive damage" on to the vehicle owner...Insurance companies are on the band wagon from paying for damages from customer altered vehicle specs (ie: trailer hitches)...Long story... to reduce coverage....Insurance companies are lobbying states to pass such laws. I can see it, I trailer motorcycles frequently and forget and leave the hitch ball installed...until the lady bumped me, or I hit my shin.
As I said before. Another example of the responsible driver being penalized for the actions of an irresponsible driver.
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Been to bussy but with itchy to post my experience with this.
When 1st got my maverick on 2022 during car washes when I was stepping out of the bed I felt, the fall was so brutal that I still freeze only thinking about it, the slamming on the floor was sudden and powerful that Right away started looking for something to step safely and avoid unnecessary injuries.
After like forever I decided and order the:
Bully BBS-1104L
This thing has paid itself off by giving me peace of mind while stepping out of the truck bed, other good thing is the many times it saved my truck from the walls (me backing up) or in parking lots when ppl just hit you and act like nothing happened.
But the most important one was when someone had a brake malfunction and slamed into my truck, yes was a low speed (bellow 35mph or so) but it was enough to pretty much destroy front of the other person vehicle, yep the hood+lights +radiator+condenser etc. My maverick ? Glad you asked, like nothing even happened I checked on a shop just on case and like nothing even happened, no even a scratch.
I'm by no means saying this best thing since slice bread but on my case is been awesome, with so many histories about maverick been totaled getting rear ended this thing definitely could save you from lots of headaches and your truck on the same time.
Nobody were injured, the person was super nice and with a great personality, I was sad because the person vehicle but happy my truck didn't suffered from the maverick rear ended finale that we see here on the forums more oftenly that we would want to see.
Amazon took forever to deliver the new one, but definitely worth the wait and every penny spent on it, hopefully nobody else rear end my maverick but if it happens again I feel confident enough that this thing have my back.
good thing the little car almost subducted under your truck,if the crash bar on the car had connected first you may have had a sprung rear frame as it was the bully bar crumpled and absorbed some of the energy,the hitch crash bar itself is fairly robust,it wouldn't really take that much to spring it all these parts are designed to absorb energy especially on the front of the car if it had been going faster you may have been looking at a frame repair and a totaled car.one of my acquaintances rear-ended a little car and it almost totaled his Chevy truck( good design incremental crush and a suspension that folded down,what worries me is those rock crawler"ranch hand type bumpers when they start killing people the lawsuits will fly,oth even a hitch ball will help in a minor bumper rap,blame the feds for relaxing bumper impact standards,my wife had rearender in a 740 Volvo,it was a pretty hard hit due to the heavy aluminum bumper and telescoping mounts the Volvo was unscathed,always beware of what you put on something that might actually cause others harm,what a Maverick really needs is a stouter front end,because the way the push bars and guards can be mounted the aftermarket equipment would actually turn what would be a cracked grill into a major front end repair.once sitting at a light at home Depot a clown in a Dodge caliber slammed into my rear end on a Dodge Dakota,he had pretty significant damage to the caliber,I didn't have a hitch ball in the hitch absorbed most of the impact,looking at it later there was quite a bit of damage to the truck( if I had the hitch ball in the Caliber wouldn't have driven away and the inattentive guy in the Caliber would have had to pay for his "dumbassery" which leads me to say always hitch a ride when possible or let someone else drive because a fraction of a second inattentiveness would cause a world of trouble( it has to do with kinetic energy and newtons third)
Not in my experience. Yes the bumper absorbed energy: the damage looked superficial. The frame rail was crumpled anyway.
Now replaced with an XLT with a hitch, I’m thinking of putting something in it:
