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While it is possible for this to work and be strong enough. It would not be eligible for any form of competition by any motorsports regs in the UK and would therefore be seen as potentially unsafe.Grima wrote: no sorry, what I mean is a hard fitting to chassis with screw in eye bolts for off road recovery. Remove eye bolts for on road so low risk of injury or damage to people or veh's. Most modern cars have a captive hidden recovery point behind the front bumper with a screw in eye bolt.
The risk being should one of your screw in attachments fail and pull out under a recovery situation, it could easily become a deadly hazard flying through the air.
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For competitions we require high tensile nuts and bolts for all recovery points. Welding any of these will remove the tensile strength from them.Lambert wrote: Interesting idea this. So for easy manufacturing use a set of available recovery points but cut off to sit just inside the bumper skin and weld an m36 coupler nut to the side and then have a 5 tonne WLL collared lifting eye to protrude for a shackle. One each side. Plenty strong.
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US spec Jeeps come with factory rated recovery points on their off road models. Note the red hooks.Bill Portland wrote: Seems strange that there's little regulation around this issue. Car companies spend millions trying to achieve good safety crash test results for on road use and then we go and stick big pointy-outy metally bits on just perfect for taking someone's knee caps out. Seems what's safer for off road is a liability for on road.
Has them at the back too. Interestingly, EU/UK spec models only get the rears.
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