This is not a simple piece to write, although the starting point is simple. Old cars are just not safe for you and your family. They don’t get close to modern crash safety standards and every new car, even the cheapest today for sale, are light years that are in front of us in the safety of the occupants. Get a new car for your own good.
The above section is a fact, a fact that was brought into my mind earlier this week when we witnessed the crash test of a Proton Wira, live at the Miros PC3 lab. Knowing something in theory is one thing, seeing the massacre with your own eyes is a completely different.
Here is some background. This is not an official ASEAN -NCAP test and there is no assessment to be obtained, although we are in the same facility in Ayer Molek, Melaka who hands out the stars and points that we know. The same high -speed cameras and lights, the same background, the same gear and the same demolition team, but with a completely different subject.
One that comes from the past. Here we have a Proton Wira from 1993 from the first match of the super popular sedan based on the fourth generation Mitsubishi Lancer. This white 1.5 GL was donated by Hezeri Samsuri, experienced driving journalist and founder of Grimace. Our friend bought the Wira with the intention of recovering, but the man has far too many vehicles to work/play and had a brilliant idea.
Crash it! He contacted Miros and here we are with a few other media invited Hezeri to see the death of a car in real time. He has only one Wira to give, so there will only be one crash – the full frontal – instead of the usual front offset and NCAP’s range of tests. We also use the most basic dummies (which are very expensive things), because the most important intention is to show the damage to the car.
After a nervous waiting from the viewing platform we heard the countdown and then the sound of the Wira that is the building in the building in a recorded speed of 62 km/h (64 km/h is the norm). It hit the wall with a muted ‘boxos’ sound, creating a combustion of glass and trim.
We ran down to inspect the now vast Wira (RIP, Hero), and what I immediately noticed was not the fully ground 1/3 of the sedan with three box, but the rest of the Proton-now minus the engine compartment-visible shorter than the car lived those moments ago.
Perhaps not so pronounced on photos, but the wheelbase of the sedan has been shortened and the destroyed body seems somewhat bent, like a Mercedes-Benz CLS. The crew later lifted the wreck and pointed us to the broken welding points on the chassis.
This compression of the passenger cell must be the biggest difference between a modern car and an older car built in the era where crash tests were nothing. The engine space of a modern car acts as a large creasing zone, designed to properly crimp with impact, absorb the energy of the crash, so to speak. Without this gigantic, actual ‘absorber bumper’ (do you remember the Nissan Sunny 130y?) The massive energy is transferred to the cabin, as demonstrated by this Wira -Wrak.
The safest cars on the road today are intact after the A -Pilaren, which have been strengthened to resist the crash test for the offset -crash test. The latter, where only one side of the front of the car has the first impact, is a more difficult test than the entire frontal, where the impact is spread over a larger area. That is why you see no pillar damage here, but shocking scenes greeted us after further inspection.
Without a winding zone, the impact of the collision pushed the firewall – and the dashboard – back into the cabin, so that the experts drastically reduced the ‘Cabin Survival Zone’. The legs of the adult dummy dummy are pushed back to the chair basis and his foot is folded back to his shin. The steering wheel is no longer round because the dented part ‘went into the belly of the dummy.
Possible impact areas were painted to literally emphasize contact points with the dummy, and we see the colors on the eyebrow, nose and chin of Mr Orange – without airbag to dampen the blow, the whole face of the dummy crashed with the stiff steering wheel. There is also color on the passenger side of the dashboard, which means that the head of the child – secured in a child seat – hit the dashboard. Certain death If they were both human, we were told.
The last nail in the coffin is that all four doors could not be opened by a crew of five adult men, who had tools and no shortage of experience with mutilated cars. The compression of the passenger cell must have sealed the doors in place. If this was a real accident, it would be impossible for passers -by to help the passengers free from Bomba Arrive with their jaws of life. The doors of modern cars are designed to be opened in the case of a crash.
As is known in the beginning, this was not a simple story to write, because quite some of us keep old cars here paultan.org. PT BM-collega Farid drove to Melaka in a closed Volvo 240 and the previous two-door car of yours was a Toyota MR2 three years older than the deceased Wira.
Many of our cars have dream cars from that time, or at least a good memory of the family salon in which we grew up. They don’t make them like before, right?
Indeed! Today’s cars, even the most elementary, are designed to meet modern crash safety standards that were not there in the 1990s, which means that even the Perodaa Axia/Bezza or today’s Proton Saga will keep it – small and light in a crash than old cars – there are no two ways left.
And although we use the Wira as an example, it would be the same for a Honda Civic Eg, Toyota Corolla Seg or a only model from the era – the idea of ‘old cars is more solid’ or that they are made of ‘harder steel’ is wrong.
Do we then fell to dump the old car and replace it as quickly as possible with a new purchase loan? No, but when You can afford a modern car to serve as a family transport, safety is always well spent money. If you keep an old car for enthusiastic or sentimental reasons, enjoy your old friend in a responsible manner that the scale will not offer much protection in a crash. Make sure your brakes and tires are in good condition and do not take too many liberties. View the deadly blow of the Wira from all corners in the video below.
Gallery: 1993 Proton Wira Frontal Crash Test
Gallery: modern car wrecks on Miros PC3
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