Volvo XC60's sheet metal is strong and built with steel structure to ensure safety!
2024-08-22
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I always hear people say that Volvo car repairs are expensive. At first I didn't understand why, because in recent years, Volvo's products have not only been very competitively priced, but the parts-to-whole ratio has also been going down. It's not expensive to occasionally replace a wearing part.
But not long ago, a netizen recorded the daily work of a sheet metal master, which made me understand why it is expensive to repair Volvo cars, because this car is too difficult to repair...
The sheet metal master in the video complained: This car is too hard. It takes two minutes to rest after drilling a hole. In a short while, the drill bit of the electric drill has been ringed six or seven times. Who can stand this! With such labor time and material consumption, it would be strange if it is not expensive.
Having said that, if the parts are expensive, we as consumers can complain, but if the hard sheet metal makes the car repair expensive, no one except the sheet metal technician should be disgusted. In fact, in my opinion, the more painful the sheet metal technician is, the more secure Volvo users should feel.
In fact, Volvo makes sheet metal workers very uncomfortable. The most fundamental reason is that its materials are too solid. Let’s take the Volvo XC60 as an example. In its body metal structure, about 29% of the metal is ultra-high-strength boron steel, which has extremely high rigidity and resistance to torsion.
Data shows that the tensile strength of the ultra-high-strength boron steel used in the Volvo XC60 is as high as 1300-1600 MPa, and the yield strength is above 1000 MPa. In other words, each square centimeter of ultra-high-strength boron steel can withstand a pressure of more than 10 tons, which is 3-4 times that of ordinary steel. Even an elephant standing on it will not deform.
In addition to the generous use of materials, the XC60 also pays attention to the material matching. In order to pursue the safety limit of the passenger compartment, the XC60 adopts the famous Volvo cage body design. In addition to ultra-high-strength boron steel, high-strength steel and ordinary steel are also used. Please note that this is not Volvo's approach for cost saving considerations, but through a combination of soft and hard methods to achieve the best protection effect.
For example, when encountering a major collision, the XC60's outermost bumper, energy absorption box and other designs will absorb part of the impact force. If there is still impact force, the low-rigidity material of the front part of the car will collapse, until the final stunt of losing the wheel to save life is used, and all the impact force is absorbed outside the survival space of the passenger compartment, protecting the safety of the passengers in the car.
Thanks to its iron bones, the Volvo XC60 has performed excellently in major authoritative collision tests, and even won the "IIHS Top Safety Pick Award" in the United States in 2017 and 2021.
In addition to the safe body structure, Volvo XC60 also has many safety black technologies, such as SIPS side impact protection system, WHIPS head and neck protection system, intelligent airbag protection system, pre-tensioned force-limited seat belts, explosive and crushing brake pedals, and the most important third-generation City Safety urban intelligent safety system. These black technologies can protect the safety of passengers in the XC60 from multiple dimensions, so that the passengers of the XC60 always have enough travel safety.
Seeing this, some people may say: I know Volvo is safe enough, but luxury cars are too expensive and I can't afford it. People who say this probably don't understand the market. At present, the price of Volvo XC60 is easily over 300,000 yuan, and the price after license plate is just over 300,000 yuan. It is indeed more expensive than ordinary brand mid-size SUVs, but the degree of expensiveness is very limited. The sense of security that Volvo XC60 can provide is something that other models of the same level can't buy no matter how much money you spend. What do you think?
