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.
Tiguan roof crush test.
Twelve small suvs were recently the first to be put to the institute s test.
15 000 lbs of weight on the roof and the tiguan only deformed by 2.
Tiguan comes out on top in iihs roof crush test socal tiguan pano roof wont affect roof strength the strength goes the length of the car along the doors most likely the doors play a huge roll in the roof strength due to the fact the windows did not blow out.
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.
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.