Under Spencer's recommendation I slapped a little WD40 on those automatic seat belts and now they are no longer noisy! Now I have no complaints about them.. Hell, they even save me about $60 in insurance a year.
Quote: from TomNSR at 10:19 pm on Nov. 3, 2008 Quote: from Punkrocker 1992 at 4:21 pm on Nov. 3, 2008 Insurance companies, believe it or not, do not want you to be hurt that badly and/or killed because they're the ones paying for your medical treatment. . Ah ok didnt realise that they paid for your medical bills. With the money it would have cost us to pay the medical bill in our wreck, we could have bought several cars.
Quote: from Punkrocker 1992 at 4:21 pm on Nov. 3, 2008 Insurance companies, believe it or not, do not want you to be hurt that badly and/or killed because they're the ones paying for your medical treatment. . Ah ok didnt realise that they paid for your medical bills.
Insurance companies, believe it or not, do not want you to be hurt that badly and/or killed because they're the ones paying for your medical treatment. .
Ah ok didnt realise that they paid for your medical bills.
With the money it would have cost us to pay the medical bill in our wreck, we could have bought several cars.
The person we hit in '02 was ejected from her Nissan, if she had been driving a Ford Tempo, well, she and thousands of others would probably be alive or not seriously hurt.
Why would automatic seat belts decrease your insurance? They dont make it any less likely you will crash. PS: Automatic seatbelts are the most RETARDED thing I've ever heard of. I only just found out they existed and I already wish I hadn't. How hard is it to put a seat belt on manually? Or is it for fat people who can't reach over their own shoulders? Whats next? A car that automatically drives itself for you?
PS: Automatic seatbelts are the most RETARDED thing I've ever heard of. I only just found out they existed and I already wish I hadn't. How hard is it to put a seat belt on manually? Or is it for fat people who can't reach over their own shoulders?
Whats next? A car that automatically drives itself for you?
Buses drive you places, so I guess you could say thats already indirectly been invented.
way to be an ignorant European regarding your fat comment.
It was a passive safety feature, for what it's worth.. much like airbags.
Except the light knob and/or high beam stalk.
According to Wiki they stopped because of airbags conflicting with them. My opinion is they had a fantastic purpose. They forced you to have a belt on, think of the amounts of deaths that would be prevented if every car had them. As for the motors, I was surprised to find they worked in my Tempo. But then, thinking about it, I've never heard of a single case where a Tempo, Topaz, Escort, or Tracer had the motors break.
As for the motors, I was surprised to find they worked in my Tempo. But then, thinking about it, I've never heard of a single case where a Tempo, Topaz, Escort, or Tracer had the motors break.
I have heard of cases where the motors blow, but very rare.
%99 of the automatic belts had standard ends on them so you could easily unbelt the seatbelt if you wanted, which I have to do all the time with the '91 Saturn I occasionally drive, because if the motor didn't give out, they blew the fuses just as often. Point being, people can still be just as stupid as they were regardless, I just look at it as a form of natural selection.