I have wrecked a couple of buggies really hard, I mean head on WFO collisions with trees and light poles and have never bent a chassis. However, just a couple of weeks ago I saw a guy hit the same tree I centered headon and he buckled the hell out his chassis. It bent the chassis and both center dogbones. Keep in mind though I have been caught on radar doing 33mph on the straight that the tree is on so that guy was really hauling ass when that happened. Cheap RTR chassis plate too.