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What is the story on the 740 C pillar weakness? 700

posted by  garlandw on  Wed Jan 9 16:22 CST 2008
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Your experience matches what most of us on this forum believe to be true. That is why I asked the question about the C-pillar weakness statement. It seems to be at odds to experience. No doubt any design can be improved and no doubt that the 940 with SIPS is an improvement over the 740. But I understood SIPS is based on strengthening the floor (and roof?) at the B-pillar area so that side impact loads are absorbed by more of the overall structure. I suppose the C-pillar area could be part of the overall system but I doubt it is the major part.

Anyway, either the wikipedia statement should be substantiated or it should be removed.

Bill






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