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Aug 10, 2016Explorer II
I have thought, for a long time, that steel cans or inner fenders may save lives and damage.
It would take cad/cam or sharp pencil, and just a bit, to draw up plans, for them and attachment points anchoring them to reinfor,ced area, around fender opening, of the coach body, leaving plenty of room for axe and tire movement and to shield body and engine, exhaust, wires and lines etc. Made of 3/8 inch high strength steel or neoalloy, it would weight maybe 120 lbs to 140 lbs each. Sure an exploding tire might or probably will ding it, pretty badly, but not the expensive coach, maybe. On the front, there is all kinds, of room. Extra cost for the steel and forming and mounting etc, but should not be more than 200.00 per axle side. 800.00 and maybe some lives saved, and destruction, of the coach.
Not quite as simple as I say but it would be a great selling point especially to Rrepeat RV Buyers, who have witnessed or experienced a blowout.
It would take cad/cam or sharp pencil, and just a bit, to draw up plans, for them and attachment points anchoring them to reinfor,ced area, around fender opening, of the coach body, leaving plenty of room for axe and tire movement and to shield body and engine, exhaust, wires and lines etc. Made of 3/8 inch high strength steel or neoalloy, it would weight maybe 120 lbs to 140 lbs each. Sure an exploding tire might or probably will ding it, pretty badly, but not the expensive coach, maybe. On the front, there is all kinds, of room. Extra cost for the steel and forming and mounting etc, but should not be more than 200.00 per axle side. 800.00 and maybe some lives saved, and destruction, of the coach.
Not quite as simple as I say but it would be a great selling point especially to Rrepeat RV Buyers, who have witnessed or experienced a blowout.
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