2006.08.07 In our ambition for contineous development of methods and products for the Collision Repair Industry Car-O-Liner now takes another step forward.

The development is done in close cooperation with the car manufacturers worldwide and in many cases their own crash tracks are used for the evaluation of products and methods. With the intention of increasing the frequency and the test possibilities Car-O-Liner has now developed a crash track of its own.

During last autumn the first tests were done with a rail running Suzuki Swift and now Suzuki has provided us with a brand new Grand Vitara. In this case a damage occurred in the B-post by driving a large passenger car on the track into the side of a stationary Grand Vitara.
The tests are part of our cooperation with Suzuki Motor Corp in Hamamatsu, Japan.

The Manager of the Method department, Lars-Erik Philipsson is very pleased with the result.
- This will increase our possibilities of testing and developing our products and methods in a
quick and proper way, explains a satisfied Mr. Philipsson.
- We can control the demolition and must not wait for a car of a new model to crash in reality
to get the data for our development, continues Mr. Philipsson.

This is an important step to prove that crashed cars are as safe as new ones also after a large structural damage repair. The crash track will not be used to evaluate the crash safety of cars but only to create realistic damages of new and repaired vehicles.

Also our Head of R&D department, Mr. Kent Palmgren is pleased.
- We have always had a considerable method and product development at Car-O-Liner, he says. With assistance of the crash track these processes can become even more efficient, Mr. Palmgren ends.

 See the Car-O-Liner Crash Track movie:

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