Have Any Of You Seen A Truck Seat Does This?

androgelrx · March 5, 2010

This guy just got in a serious wreck but I have never seen any seats do this. I'm not sure if this is by design or just failure but nevertheless it's disturbing to look at. I hope the Silverado seats don't do this in a high impact collision.

http://www.tundrasolutions.com/forums/tund...905-miles-ouch/

C. Charles Hahn · March 5, 2010

All I had to see was that it's a Toyota. No more need be said to explain why it experienced epic FAIL.

punmax · March 5, 2010

Zembonez · March 5, 2010

Holy crap! I've seen a lot of vehicles that had been hit in the ass and the seats were twisted... but never anything like that. WOW!

pm26 · March 5, 2010

GM equips police package Impala and Tahoe vehicles with specially reinforced seats to be more resistant to breaking in a collision.

C. Charles Hahn · March 5, 2010

GM equips police package Impala and Tahoe vehicles with specially reinforced seats to be more resistant to breaking in a collision.

Given that the Z56 Tahoe's seats look exactly like the regular production ones, it makes me think all of the GMT900 seats are "specially reinforced" for strength.

Or at least I hope that's the case.

ryan_hermanutz · March 5, 2010

I don't know about the seats, but that rear bumper looks better than ours would.

brims · March 5, 2010

All I had to see was that it's a Toyota. No more need be said to explain why it experienced epic FAIL.

Seems to be the way Toyota has gone, inferior everything.

"I thought we were all going to die when I looked in the rearview and saw this car coming so fast so close."

I would be scared of getting hit while in a Toyota as well. The guy also thinks if the seats had stayed together he'd be hurt worse. I kind of doubt that. With all the protruding objects, I'd think impalement would be likely.

androgelrx · March 5, 2010

The body held up pretty well considering the impact of the collision. I mean was hit by an expedition at 60 mph. I bet the frame is all screwed up. Replace that truck with the Silverado, I think the Silvy would hold up better b/c of the fully box frame over the bed. I DO NOT hope/want to see a seat break like that in the Silvy.

orlan85 · March 5, 2010

Toyota; explains it all. Toyota probably states that this is suppose to happen that research has been done and this.............. blah blah blah. Until someones neck breaks because the head rest and half the seat gave out from the whiplash. Could you imagine the injury one can recieve from having your head fly forward then back, hitting the seat, thus breaking the seat and your head still has the momentum going back? your upper body would make almost a 90 degree angle backwards.

GPSilverado · March 5, 2010

The guy in the Tundra has ruptured discs in his back as a result of the accident. My guess is that it wouldn't have happened if the seats didn't fail. I hope the guy at least gets his medical bills taken care of for life.

C. Charles Hahn · March 5, 2010

The guy in the Tundra has ruptured discs in his back as a result of the accident. My guess is that it wouldn't have happened if the seats didn't fail. I hope the guy at least gets his medical bills taken care of for life.

No kidding. Frankly he's lucky to be alive getting tossed around like that.

jblakeney · March 5, 2010

TOYOTA..... hahahahahaha

Bed hit the cab on the Toyota and scuffs the paint. I am not surprised to see that seat.

I have walked around my share of junkyards, I have not seen a GM Seat do that. I have seen the track and or the tilt break thou. But not enough that passenger would be in the shape that the Toyota guy was in. If one of those looked like 2 vertical bars in the seat stabbed you, it could be fatal or cause serious injury. Looking at the pictures. WHY NO AIR BAG. CLEARLY should have been more than enough to caused the bags to deploy.

But the GM engineers might want to look at their rear bumper. I think you can kick the GM one into the fender on the NNBS's....... 3 piece rear bumper WTF were the thinking.

I usually walk around the Toyota's in the junkyard I will start peeking in to look at the seats.

Jbo

rogerf · March 5, 2010

I actually have seen failure points such as this in seats installed in over the road buses. They are designed to fail if the impact stress exceeds a specific point. Most seat frames I have seen with the upholstery removed don't have much frame holding the head restraint adjustment tubes in place so understand how this can happen. Intersting to look at, the leverage parts stayed inside the upholstery which leads me to believe this is a designed failure point. Not saying this is right but safety engineers claim it minimizes injuries. Have not seen a seat fail at the head restraint, usually designed to fail at the recliner hinge.