They deflect the annoying magnolia tree branches that some times break out of their restraints and fly out into the area where I park my trac (It's a small magnolia tree that will soon no longer be there )
Stop a shopping cart that rolled @ my trac....
oh, and get a nice nick in it when I hit something at very slow speed, something which happened to be very solid
The one I got from ebay is nice, but the stock hardware sucked; the bolts and nuts rusted within weeks in october 07
Bill - I've used my bar to politely move a Camry that was parked in front of my garage once. I told that guy that the next time he parked there, I would move it out of the way. Guy just didn't believe me. My truck was fine afterwards. The same couldn't be said for his trunk.