Welcome to the fourth instalment of the see-through car series
This is something I wanted to do For a long time and I think it's going to be a lot of
fun
In the previous episode I drive this car through the worst streets
And the worst potholes I could find in the city of Chicago
and I figured to complete the series there's only one thing missing
Speed bumps
First thing I have to do is get the car prepped washed
And most importantly get the nitrous tank filled
Before letting this car face more of the continual destruction
That the Chicago roads dishout on our cars
my idea here is to show everybody what would happen
If you didn't see that speed bump and you were going too fast
I'm going to go through three different types of speed bumps
The asphalt speed bump
The parking lot speed bump
And then what I like to call the suspension killers
These are these newer types of speed bumps
That they are installing that are about 5 and 6 inches high
And about 8 in wide
This is going to be interesting and probably intense
first item on my list is the most common type of speed bump
That we find in Chicago is the asphalt speed bump
And as you can see these are really simple but effective
They cause quite a bit of damage to the car
This is all subframe damage
And this is caused by driver error
this is when the driver is going too fast and doesn't realize the speed bump is there
And then hits the brakes and bottoms out their car
So that's what I'm going to be doing first And then move on to everything else let's
do it
Ready to rock and roll are you ready? We're all set
That is a pretty good example on how people normally hit speed bumps
they normally aren't paying attention and they're going too fast
They see the speed bump too late And they hit the brakes they get on the brakes
Right as they go over the hump
Which is exactly what I did
And you can see what the car did
The car went over
Bottomed out and scraped
Then the weight transfer to the back of the car
and it exited the speed bump
That's usually what happens
That was cool it was a lot of fun
And it looked really cool
The next thing I'm going to do is
It's going to be a completely different scenario
Instead of slowing down at the top like people normally do
I'm just going to hit the accelerator and go straight right through the speed bump
And show you how the car behaves differently in that scenario
This time I'm just going to go as fast as I possibly can
I'm going to hit the nitrous off the line
And show you what happens if you hit the speed bump
and keep on going and don't hit the brakes at all
Because I think the results will surprise you
That was the asphalt speed bump at high speed
As you see I just went as fast as I could
didn't hit the brakes didn't do anything and just went right over it
And to my amazement nothing happened to the suspension
Nothing happened to the car
The next thing I'm going to do is
we're going to head over to the next speed bump
which is a type of speed bump that you would find
Which is a type of speed bump you would find in a shopping mall parking lot
Now this is going to start getting more intense
Because these speed bumps or no joke
I have just arrived at the parking lot of a big box retailer
who just so happens to have the exact speed bumps that I'm looking for
There are those plastic yellow ones
That you would usually find in the parking lot of like a supermarket
Or shopping mall
I don't know how destructive they are but we're about to find out
Not much
All right well that was no good nothing happened
I for sure thought that hitting those speed bumps at that speed
Would tear the suspension apart
But after looking at the high-speed footage
It looks like that's a higher frequency shock
and the tires are absorbing most of the shock
Not the suspension
And at lower speeds the tires are absorbing less of the shock
And the suspension is absorbing most of the shock
Which makes it feel like it would be destructive if you went faster
I wanted to see the suspension ripped to shreds
And nothing is happening
This car is beyond bulletproof
I'm going to try this one more time but this time
I'm going to slam the brakes right before hitting the speed bump
And see if we can tear something up
That was interesting
I'm really not satisfied with the last result
Look at that see how bad that sounds what the I don't get it
So I'm going to move on to the last and final speed bumps
Which I think are going to be well let's see
I'm here at our last and final location
For hopefully what's going to be the worst speed bumps yet
These are what I like to call suspension killers
Usually these are speed bumps you have to go over really slow
They make your whole car jump up in the air
Seems like you can't go over these faster than about 10 miles an hour
I'm going to go over them a little bit slow to show you what I'm talking about
And then I'm just going to hit it and give it at all it's got
Let's see what happens
As you can clearly see when you hit the speed bumps at a lower speed
there's a lot of dramatic body movement the whole car jumps up and down
that makes me think that at a higher speed there's going to be a lot of damage
And that's what I'm hoping for
I'm going to keep my fingers crossed
go as fast as I can
Hit these as hard as possible
And hope that the suspension gets ripped apart
If nothing happens I don't even know what to say
I mean these cars are built like a tank
This car has already been through so much
I'm surprised it's still together
Let's go
Well that was interesting my glove box opened
So that was kind of interesting
At the higher speed
Obviously the car is still intact
But you can see that the tire completed
The entire amount of suspension travel upward that it had
It even hit the subframe a little bit
It wasn't any worse than the potholes downtown
Those were the worst
I guess if the car survived that
The car will definitely survive this
I'm going to do it one more time and replicate a scenario
that happens to a lot of people where they hit the brakes last minute
Right before seeing the speed bump
And this should be a lot more intense then that last take
Only one way to find out
I don't know what to say
I'm really disappointed that the suspension didn't get ripped apart by the speed bumps
I really thought it was going to I did the best I can
to get to hit the brakes at the right time
and stress the components as much as I could
You could even see the tire bounced up and hit the subframe
the whole car was shaking
Again I don't think it was worse than the huge potholes which is tempting
I would like to hit some more of those but
That concludes this episode
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let me know your experience with speed bumps if they ripped apart your suspension before
I want to know about it because I would love to make that happen
That wraps this up see you next time