Car bumpers tested

In January I happened to test both my car bumpers. Surprisingly enough they both proved to be very good.

First time I managed to run over the car in front of me. We were crossing the road in a lane when someone all of a sudden decided to make a U-turn in front of us. The traffic was pretty heavy. All of our lane put the brakes on. Unfortunately for me, my car just happened to be crossing the tram path that was covered with metal plate. Not surprisingly it was very slippery so my brakes could not help. I caught up the car in front of me. It was only a gentle touch, but the bumper of that car lost part of its covering. After carefully looking at my car's bumper I could not find any sign of damage. I guess the other car was badly painted after its previous accident. However, my insurance cost for the upcoming 3 years now increased.

The second bumper test was just the opposite. This time I was caught up to my back bumper by a small truck. The hit was somewhat harder that the one before. However I was very much surprised when I again could not find any signs of the incident on my car's bumper. I could not believe it at first, but that was true. Since the truck had no damages too (not surprisingly), we just drove away.

So having tried it twice I can now say my Hyundai Elantra has pretty strong bumpers. That's good.