replaced body panel!

[Longhorn]

just wanted to share how caliber collision did at repairing my 2023 ford maverick

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[BLUEOVALRACER]

Looks good and looks like they had to drill a bunch of spot welds out? Did they spot weld the side on or plug weld it back on?

 

[Maverick123]

.... drill a bunch of spot welds ....

Aren't the rear fenders just bolted on?

Brilliant idea by the way, all cars should be made this way.

 

[Longhorn]

to be honest

Looks good and looks like they had to drill a bunch of spot welds out? Did they spot weld the side on or plug weld it back on?

to be honest i didnt pay too much attention just glad to have it back

 

[BLUEOVALRACER]

Aren't the rear fenders just bolted on?

Brilliant idea by the way, all cars should be made this way.

Not sure maybe they're? But my buddy has his own Body Shop and I've seen him drill many spot welds out when replacing body panels and then plug welding the new panel on!!

 

[Cherokee]

Prolly a technical reason why Ford couldn’t do it but why did they not make the unibody into two chunks and put them together.
Cab and forward bolted to the bed ‘chassis’

So when Mav’s get rear ended at 35 mph they don’t get totaled.

 

[sanpablo]

Aren't the rear fenders just bolted on?

Brilliant idea by the way, all cars should be made this way.

 

[Bradley]

just wanted to share how caliber collision did at repairing my 2023 ford maverick

Very nice. Interesting how the truck is made and what the framing looks like.

 

[Phimosis]

Prolly a technical reason why Ford couldn’t do it but why did they not make the unibody into two chunks and put them together.
Cab and forward bolted to the bed ‘chassis’

So when Mav’s get rear ended at 35 mph they don’t get totaled.

These engineered weak spots will ensure that your Maverick gets totaled when rear ended at 35 mph, regardless of it being a one piece unibody or two. The bed and the cab are both going to deform.

Ford could have easily removed all of these cutout areas and made it a lot more difficult to total a Maverick.

But then the maverick's IIHS safety rating would have dropped from good, it’s highest rating, to poor, its lowest rating.

And if the Maverick scored poor on all of the crash test parameters, less than half as many mavericks would have been sold and the model would have already been discontinued.

 

[Shoptruck]

Looks good and looks like they had to drill a bunch of spot welds out? Did they spot weld the side on or plug weld it back on?

They are bolt on not welded. I've replace a fair amount of them.

 

[BLUEOVALRACER]

They are bolt on not welded. I've replace a fair amount of them.

I bet you're glad they're bolted on and You didn't have to drill out spot welds!!

 

[notfast]

just wanted to share how caliber collision did at repairing my 2023 ford maverick

Huh, looked like a good contender for paintless dent repair rather than a replacement bedside.

These engineered weak spots will ensure that your Maverick gets totaled when rear ended at 35 mph, regardless of it being a one piece unibody or two. The bed and the cab are both going to deform.

I was also going to mention energy absorption and deformation from a collision. With a smaller vehicle, there's only so much space and metal for energy to be absorbed, so it's basically expected that the vehicle is going to exhaust its crumple zones in order to maintain survival space in the passenger compartment.

If one of your concerns is being able to drive away from a moderate collision, you may want to get an F-250 with Ranch Hand bumpers. Once you cross 8500lbs GVW, vehicles are exempt from a lot of stuff, such as crash tests and fuel economy, so automakers don't have to be focused as much on crumple zones and shaving weight in the name of squeezing out 1 more MPG.

 

[Cherokee]

These engineered weak spots will ensure that your Maverick gets totaled when rear ended at 35 mph, regardless of it being a one piece unibody or two. The bed and the cab are both going to deform.

Ford could have easily removed all of these cutout areas and made it a lot more difficult to total a Maverick.

But then the maverick's IIHS safety rating would have dropped from good, it’s highest rating, to poor, its lowest rating.

And if the Maverick scored poor on all of the crash test parameters, less than half as many mavericks would have been sold and the model would have already been discontinued.

In this matter I’d prefer body on frame.

And I believe they could have engineered a more robust unibody with minimal weight gain that would not total out unless it was above a 45-50 mph rear end impact.
Not a 25-35
I’d think those cut outs add strength as the edges of the holes are curled. Most likely they save weight and are the intended crumple zone.

 

[Phimosis]

In this matter I’d prefer body on frame.

And I believe they could have engineered a more robust unibody with minimal weight gain that would not total out unless it was above a 45-50 mph rear end impact.
Not a 25-35
I’d think those cut outs add strength as the edges of the holes are curled. Most likely they save weight and are the intended crumple zone.

Yes, that is exactly it. That is the intended crumple zone. Those holes are added to WEAKEN that area so that it will bend in an impact. When multiple structural portions bend from an impact, it becomes extremely labor intensive to fix them, which means the vehicle gets totaled.

If you remove those holes and the body doesn’t bend / crush in those areas, all of the energy gets transmitted to the cab and therefore gets transmitted to the seats and the occupants, instead of getting dissipated in the crush zones. Too much energy to the occupants and they die in gruesome ways.

Using the low end of your speed range, getting totaled at 25 mph currently, vs making it stiffer and surviving a crash up to 45 mph, would mean that the vehicle would have to survive 3.24 times as much energy, based on
the kinetic energy formula: KE= 1/2 mass x velocity squared. 45/25=1.8. 1.8 squared is 3.24. If the vehicle can survive 3.24x as much energy, it will transmit 3.2x as much energy to the occupants. Current no-injury accidents would lead to trips to the hospital. Minor injury accidents would become critical injuries. And severe accidents would become 100% fatal.

The desire for stiff framed vehicles that can survive a high speed crash is a quaint notion from the 1950’s, before we understood that stiff framed vehicles kill people unnecessarily.
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[Cherokee]

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