Show Me Your Padded Roll Bar or Headrests

[kwilly]

I must be missing something here......What good does padding do on a rollbar when the car is upside down? It's not the padding that keeps the gray matter inside the skull-- it's the rollbar(s).

Or is this really an issue of when your head bangs against the rollbar?

[strictlypersonl]

Originally Posted by kwilly

I must be missing something here......What good does padding do on a rollbar when the car is upside down? It's not the padding that keeps the gray matter inside the skull-- it's the rollbar(s).

Or is this really an issue of when your head bangs against the rollbar?

In the absence of valid statistics, we can do some wild speculating...

These cars don't roll over often, but without a roof (and a pathetic windshield frame) a roll bar might come in handy. In the process of rolling, the significance of smacking your head against the bar is probably small.

Getting rear-ended: Unlikely because these cars are so "visible". On the other hand, the world is full of incompetent drivers.

Spinning out - and backing into something solid. This is probably the most likely whiplash cause. In this case, a padded roll bar would have real value.