What is this hanging off the H3 Alpha??

[H3slate]

Hummer updated their website to include the H3 Alpha. So I was browsing through that section and downloaded some wallpapers. I put this one up

http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k301/knappe18/H3AlphaDsk02_1280x1024Medium.jpg

and noticed this bar mounted to the back bumper and almost touching the ground. It can't be good for departure angle. :giggling:

My first thought would be that it was for a camera mount for a particular shot, but you think that someone would catch this before they put it on their website as a wallpaper.

What are your guesses as what they were using it for?

[H3slate]

They must have used it to take this shot

http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k301/knappe18/H3AlphaDsk01_1280x1024Medium.jpg

Where do I sign up to be the photographer hanging off the back bumper of an H3 taking shots of the spare tire.

Looks like you can see the camera in the reflection in the lower left corner. :OWNED:

[trailerpup]

Looks like they have the same robot paint sprayer setup guy at the factory too! (Mr. Orange Peel). Hopefully they have canned the guy that did the setup on the robot welders for the rear door skins (Mr. Hot Weld - for Rear Door factory dents). Oh well, at least it has a v8 option now. :giggling:

[fourfourto]

Maybe its a euro pic,they have to put a bar under rear bumper so cars dont drive under it when rear ended ?

[mikejr]

Hummer updated their website to include the H3 Alpha. So I was browsing through that section and downloaded some wallpapers. I put this one up

http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k301/knappe18/H3AlphaDsk02_1280x1024Medium.jpg

and noticed this bar mounted to the back bumper and almost touching the ground. It can't be good for departure angle. :giggling:

My first thought would be that it was for a camera mount for a particular shot, but you think that someone would catch this before they put it on their website as a wallpaper.

What are your guesses as what they were using it for?

My guess is the camera mount.....When I had my H2 in for service I was checking out the H3Alphas...no bar there....

[wpage]

Could be a road leveler. For all other vehicles to try to keep up:beerchug:

[timgco]

Wheelie bar?:jump:

[trailerpup]

We should start a pool for how long it takes for them to take this picture down.

[Agriv8r]

Wheelie bar?:jump:


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[H3 Builder]

My guess is the camera mount.....When I had my H2 in for service I was checking out the H3Alphas...no bar there....

I think your right. We don't put anything like that from the factory. I do know the Alpha version won't be available from South Africa until 2009. We still make some left hand drive for export, but those Europian bars are probably installed at the dealer.

Here is a link to a picture of a European rear bar. This would make me believe it was for taking pictures.
http://www.worldcarfans.com/3041111.009/photo1053/hummer-h3

[H3slate]

I think your right. We don't put anything like that from the factory. I do know the Alpha version won't be available from South Africa until 2009. We still make some left hand drive for export, but those Europian bars are probably installed at the dealer.

Here is a link to a picture of a European rear bar. This would make me believe it was for taking pictures.
http://www.worldcarfans.com/3041111.009/photo1053/hummer-h3

Thanks for the link. That rear bar is pretty fugly!!

[Matt19]

no actually its called an exterior passenger carrier. I have it on mine also.
I got the idea a few years back when i saw little kids sharing one bike, and 1 kids would be standing on a bar on the back wheel.

Anyway, i use it for all my guests, especially the girlfriend. She always complains that she wanted me to get a convertable so her hair can blow in the wind. So when head to the 3, i dont bother unlocking her door, she just walks to the back of the 3 and stands on her personal "exterior passenger carrier"
Sometimes i wonder why she likes it becasue the spare tire is there, it makes for an awkward position becasue her butt is facing the cars, and i feel like shes holding on for dare life when i take it offroads.
:twak:

[H3slate]

They finally fixed it!!

http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k301/knappe18/H3AlphaDsk022_1280x1024Medium.jpg

Nice photo chop to fix their oops!! They managed to get rid of all the shadowing under the rear of the vehicle too!

[3Hummer]

thats funny that they caught it after the fact and fixed it...someone probably read this thread, also looks like they fixed the coloring up a bit too.

[jmsspratlin]

Its a "wheelie" bar. The H3 does an amazing wheelie:D