are these real sparcos?

[AndrewBird]

So let say you get re-ended. You get thrown forward the belt catches you. The energy dosnt go away completely so you get slammed back into the seat. So lets say the back rest break off and in stead of getting minor whip lash you no have a spinal injury cause you slammed your body against the floor.

This is the only case I can see where seat durability might come into play, in a rear end collision. But I would think that a crash hard enough to break the seat, regardless of its build quality, would result in much more bodily harm then the seat would account for.

Also, if you got rear-ended, you would be pushed back in the seat (or more, the seat would be pushed forward into you), not forward and the amount of inertia and momentum would be significantly less as your body wouldn't be accelerating before it hit the seat, since you would already be touching it.

[Wergen7]

You get rear ended so hard the seat breaks in the middle and you then fold in half backwards and blast your guts all over the windshield. That's my imagination of an extreme case

[CoreyZ]

I saw a video of a comparison between an actual recaro and rep recline-able seat. In a serious rear end collision, you are thrown back into the seat. The rep collapsed easily, allowing the driver to slide back.

Here's one of a Bride Brix and a Recaro. Suprising how bad the Bride seat fairs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4Qsd4-8IMo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xoauIutCmc

[AndrewBird]

Very interesting! I honestly never would have thought that much force would be exerted on the seat.

So the moral of the story is, if you have cheap seats, don't get rear ended. Lol

[Cletonius]

I saw a video of a comparison between an actual recaro and rep recline-able seat. In a serious rear end collision, you are thrown back into the seat. The rep collapsed easily, allowing the driver to slide back.

Here's one of a Bride Brix and a Recaro. Suprising how bad the Bride seat fairs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4Qsd4-8IMo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xoauIutCmc

That's amazing. I was rear ended by an old man doing 30mph and it severely damaged the seat I was sitting in, my insurance company replaced it. The recaro performed like my OE seat did.

One of my friends put some pep boys off brand recline back seats in his vehicle, got hit and they fell backwards just like the bride seat in this video. He was hit at about 20mph.