Tiguan Roof Crush Test

This video shows what happened when the 2009 volkswagen tiguan rated good for roof strength and the 2008 kia sportage rated poor were each subjected to a crush force of 15 000 pounds.

Tiguan roof crush test.

The kia sportage blew all its windows and crushed to the back of the seats where the tig barely deformed at all retained all its windows and was virtually unchanged looking inside. 2019 volkswagen tiguan trims 12 trim family 2 0t s 2 0t se 2 0t sel 2 0t sel premium 2 0t sel premium r line 2 0t sel r line 2 0t sel r line black years 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014. Twelve small suvs were recently the first to be put to the institute s test. Volkswagen tiguan excels in iihs roof strength test march 24 2009 by staff arlington va the insurance institute for highway safety is launching a new roof strength rating system to help consumers pick vehicles that will help protect them in rollover crashes.

There s also a new test for crush impact as well that shows the tig as best in class again. Testing for roof crush a nhtsa standard fmvss 216 dating back to 1973 dictates that a force applied at a load of 1 5 times the vehicle weight should correspond to less than five inches of roof.