mgmetalworks
Explorer
Faired better than I expceted...
[video]https://youtu.be/PPXlrPa0uiA[/video]
[video]https://youtu.be/PPXlrPa0uiA[/video]
Ambo crash test video
- Thread starter mgmetalworks
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Try that with your standard class C RV and I think you'll be slightly disappointed. Especially if you're a passenger in the back. 
I commented elsewhere on the sad state of our RV industry and the junk they produce and man did I get a ********** down. Someone that had just purchased got juuust a bit offended.
I wonder how a type II would fare? That would be good to see.
I commented elsewhere on the sad state of our RV industry and the junk they produce and man did I get a ********** down. Someone that had just purchased got juuust a bit offended.
I wonder how a type II would fare? That would be good to see.
RAFoutdoors
Retired Explorer
Having worked in ambulances since 1979 and having been in the back tending to patients during more than one accident, I am not surprised that Braun ambulance held up so well. The boxes are very well reinforced. These rigs cost from $200,000-$350,000 and a lot of the expense is the engineering to meet DOT standards. There are risks to the equipment inside becoming projectiles and that it why everything is locked down with special mounts.
Be safe.
Be safe.
luthj
Engineer In Residence
Try that with your standard class C RV and I think you'll be slightly disappointed. Especially if you're a passenger in the back.
I commented elsewhere on the sad state of our RV industry and the junk they produce and man did I get a ********** down. Someone that had just purchased got juuust a bit offended.
I wonder how a type II would fare? That would be good to see.
Most modern American RVs are just barely strong enough for a lifetime of use on smooth highways. Anything above that... well its not pretty. The cheap (read heavy) cabinetry combined with very limited shell structure.... Now some Bus conversions (big Class A RVs) are fairly robust. But they are build on a true bus chassis which is nothing to scoff at. The European RV and camper van scene has a good variety of rigs that are similarly robust.
Top Gear has plenty of Caravan (and/or RV) carnage throughout the series. Very informative.
Regardless, that ambulance shell was very impressive. I wonder how it would have fared with a full gross load of gear? Or in a side impact accident?
Not sure abou side impact but go to patoz thread for slink to one that ran into a stone wall at about 60-70 mph. The E-350 portion of the ambo pretty much disappeared. The box looked like you could just drop it on another chassis and go.
I'm sure in a side impact it's going to cave, but I'm also pretty sure if something like a pickup plows into the side of a regular class c, it'll probably just plow right on through, if not for the chassis of the vehicle it's built on.
I'm sure in a side impact it's going to cave, but I'm also pretty sure if something like a pickup plows into the side of a regular class c, it'll probably just plow right on through, if not for the chassis of the vehicle it's built on.
Corneilius
Adventurer
ehh a lot of class c's use a series (MORE THAN ONE??!!??!) of frame extensions to move the rear axle assembly back. They overlap slightly but I've never seen a fishplate or anything beyond a lap weld. Meaning that pickup might just keep on plowing