Crash test videos and rating

This has probably been posted before

http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/ncap/cars/3642.html

http://www.safercar.gov/graphics/2006/06Ridgeline4-f.jpg

http://www.safercar.gov/graphics/2006/06Ridgeline4-s.jpg

Hey, those are great results, but why didn't they paint that truck? :p

Let's just hope none of us have to prove them right (or wrong).

I never noticed that there were videos of the crashes on that website. There are some things that I noticed that I thought were interesting. None of these observations are criticisms but are observations.

In the frontal crash picture, the sails behind the back doors bent enough to be noticeable. It appears that the entire bed bent a few degrees up in the crash. The gas cap opened as well. You have to blow the picture up to see the bends really well.

In the video, the truck is resting on the engine after the crash, not the front wheels. The breakaway engine mounts worked as they should.

There was very little movement from any of the crash test dummies towards the dashboard from the dummies in the front seat and very little movement from the dummies in the back seat.

The front tire went flat during the frontal crash but the rim didn't even crack. It appears that it did it's job in transferring the impact momentum back into the frame of the truck.

The winshield only came out of it's frame on the drivers side of the truck during the frontal test but didn't even break.

The cockpit of the truck seems to be basically unharmed even in the side impact crash.

I feel even safer in the RL after looking at the videos.

Great find Malarkey!!!

I can tell you from experience the Ridge is awesome in a crash. Take a look at the pics I posted a fewmonths ago when I wrote my first ridge off. I was totally safe and cabin held together perfectly

Great videos. This makes me more concerned about my Ridge as it appears in the video that the roof did not buckle in the side impact even though the side curtains deployed. :(

Hey, those are great results, but why didn't they paint that truck? :p
Simple... The truck is tougher unpainted.... unlike the dark pink... :eek:
:p

It takes a real man to drive a "dark pink" truck, brich. :cool: All you wimps that can't make a real color choice can keep driving your sheet metal looking RLs. :p BTW does Honda give a discount for leaving the paint off??? :D

Great videos. This makes me more concerned about my Ridge as it appears in the video that the roof did not buckle in the side impact even though the side curtains deployed. :(

Is the roof supposed to buckle?

Hey, those are great results, but why didn't they paint that truck? :p
Whatchu talkin' 'bout Willis? :D

BTW does Honda give a discount for leaving the paint off??? :D
Ruthless, Simply ruthless I say.:rolleyes: :p

Sorry, in a moment of unguarded weakness, my latent predjudice just came out. :o It wasn't bigotry. I was just angry. Will all of the silver owners forgive me?

Nailing Marlarkey,
I recently had an accident where I ran my Ridge through a ditch to avoid a collision with two other cars and my side curtains deployed.

The Ridge went through the ditch with no problem other than damaging the front bumper, rt fog light and rt front fender and replacing the curtains( I thought).

When I got it to the body shop the estimator saw that the roof had buckled at the forward corners of the sunroof and at the rear of the roof immediately above where the curtains attach on the cage structure.

When the body shop ordered the roof panel (yes the roof panel can be replaced without cutting out the cage) Honda sent reps to the body shop as they had not yet seen a roof buckle on the Ridge. The Honda folks and the body shop folks agree that the roof buckled due to the force of the side curtain deployment and not due to the offset stress on the roof of going through the ditch. I am still unconvinced. I have looked at several pictures of Ridges with the curtains deployed and have yet to see where the roof buckled except for mine.

The truck has been in the body shop for over a month while I wait for Honda parts and the commensurate repairs.

Bottom line, after I get it back I fear that it will soon be at the local Honda dealer and I will be in an '07. :(