Tag Archives: UHSS

2016 Honda Civic Body Structure

b-pillar extrication

The 2016 Honda Civic Body Structure has several unique features that responders should know about. Besides a body structure made up of an increased percentage of Ultra-High Strength Steel (UHSS)

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2016 Cadillac SRX Body Structure and Airbags

2015 Cadillac SRX Body Structure and Airbags

The 2016 Cadillac SRX has a safety cage built from ultra-high-strength steel, with crumple zones positioned to help absorb and manage crash energy. Six standard airbags, including front- and second-row outboard head-curtain side-impact airbags.

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2014 Volkswagen Touareg Body Structure

Volkswagen Touareg

The 2014 VW Touareg body structure is packed full of reinforced steel. Take a look at the screenshot from Moditech’s Crash Recovery System.

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Need a great image for an extrication training PowerPoint?

2015 Chevrolet Colorado PowerPoint presentation.

Looking for a great image to update your extrication PowerPoint presentation?  Here is a very large high definition image of the 2015 Chevrolet Colorado.  It shows where press hardened steel and UHSS is used.  You can zoom in on the ...

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2014 Ford Fusion Body Structure

The 2014 Ford Fusion has an unique body structure.  We covered the 2013 Ford Fusion last year here, but felt the need to update the material on the Fusion.  The A-Pillar design stretches to the C-pillar and joins all 3 pillars ...

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2014 Hyundai i40 Body Structure

2014 Hyundai i40 Body Structure Airbag

The use of ultra-high strength steel in the 2014 Hyundai i40 bodyshell is highlighted in the image below. More ultra-high-strength steel and hot-stamping.

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New XC90 Volvo Body Structure

Here is an interesting fact. Seven percent of the safety cage in the original XC90 was made of hot-formed boron steel. The structure in the upcoming cars built on the new Scalable Product Architecture (SPA) feature over 40 per cent hot-formed steel,

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Where’s the Boron, hot stamped, and UHSS?

Where's the Boron, hot stamped, and UHSS? On BoronExtrication.com of course! Advanced Extrication posted a list of vehicles that have boron and we put our own twist on it below and linked the models to pages that show the body structure of each vehicle.

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