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isn't the front part of the car SUPPOSED to crumple to take most of the force out of the impact? Sure the H2 coulda been built to where it didn't get a dent in that accident...but you wouldn't be alive to tell about it, you'd prob. be out the windshield and lying on the road...where as, like stated above, the cabin doesn't look all that bad 
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Originally posted by GSRBoy
isn't the front part of the car SUPPOSED to crumple to take most of the force out of the impact? Sure the H2 coulda been built to where it didn't get a dent in that accident...but you wouldn't be alive to tell about it, you'd prob. be out the windshield and lying on the road...where as, like stated above, the cabin doesn't look all that bad
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isn't the front part of the car SUPPOSED to crumple to take most of the force out of the impact? Sure the H2 coulda been built to where it didn't get a dent in that accident...but you wouldn't be alive to tell about it, you'd prob. be out the windshield and lying on the road...where as, like stated above, the cabin doesn't look all that bad
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Today I spent about 8 hours removing the dashboard and half of the cowl trim and engine compartment out of an H2 just to change a fresh air door actuator.
Its just a cigarette box sized stepper motor that operates the air doors in the a/c unit.
Unfortunately due to slack engineering principles they use at GM they put some of them between the firewall and a/c unit which is BURIED deep in the center right of the dash.
And that was with cutting corners, such as only pulling the dash and a/c unit back just a foot or so to access the actuator and door.
The crazy factory manual would have us spending two days removing the entire dash board and a/c unit from the vehicle.
Oh, the stories I could tell about H1s and H2s.
Its just a cigarette box sized stepper motor that operates the air doors in the a/c unit.
Unfortunately due to slack engineering principles they use at GM they put some of them between the firewall and a/c unit which is BURIED deep in the center right of the dash.
And that was with cutting corners, such as only pulling the dash and a/c unit back just a foot or so to access the actuator and door.
The crazy factory manual would have us spending two days removing the entire dash board and a/c unit from the vehicle.
Oh, the stories I could tell about H1s and H2s.
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I see what you're saying about the nose of it taking the impact.. and i agree. They make cars so they crush in certain places to absorb the energy... but as good as that is... it sucks because in essence they make weak points into the body/hood/frame and even the lightest collision causes lots of $$ damage. Ever notice how cars hoods fold up big time in just a minor rear end? So yeah, that H2 may have been made to crumble up like that and keep the cabin intact... but it also makes for a very expensive repair. I guess its a necessary evil
