Comment on My 98 Oldsmobile
Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Cars are super fat anymore so I’ll bet my VWs golfs door weighs at least as much.
For reference in 1996 I was hit in my 88 Jetta by an 83 Caprice classic stationwagon, she was going 55 I was doing 45 and she hit me head on. I could open the door to my car she had to be cut out.
My parents wrote both VW in Germany and VW USA thanking them for building a good car and got a shit ton of swag
infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
I’ve literally taken apart my Golf’s doors a half dozen times (Various electrical issues and part replacements). Mk5 mind you not mk1/2 like your Jetta probably was, but they are shockingly light. Like 1mm thin sheet metal molded into a reinforcing shape, the latch motor is by far the heaviest thing in there.
gnu@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
No intrusion bars? Those have a good bit of weight to them due to the strength requirements.
Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world 1 day ago
My 2019 Golf weighs 2800 pounds according to the States of Florida, it weighs 3240 pounds on the scale at the drag strip.
A '94 caprice weighs about 4000 pounds and it is a BoF car.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
I can assure you, little of it is from the doors. My 2007 Audi A6 allroad is 4300 pounds empty according to its birth certificate and the doors on it don’t weigh much at all… Or rather they didn’t till I added noise absorption mats when I replaced the door locks. Yours is newer but a Golf would likely have less built in noise insulation in the doors than an A6 and it might even have aluminium doors since it’s newer. Mine are still steel, but the metal is pretty thin.