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FTF Posted at 7:35 am on Oct. 27, 2008
You have been warned.

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.

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emo sux69 Posted at 10:36 pm on Nov. 3, 2008
Quote: from Punkrocker 1992 at 5:32 pm on Nov. 4, 2008

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.


Over here they call it a green slip you pay like 100 bucks for it every 2-3 years and the govnerment will pay for all that.
FTF Posted at 10:32 pm on Nov. 3, 2008
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.

IMPALA Posted at 10:31 pm on Nov. 3, 2008
..............................no.
TomNsR Posted 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.

FTF Posted at 4:21 pm on Nov. 3, 2008
They force lazy Americans to wear a belt. Its not so much, in the majority of cases that I have observed, that we cannot put our seat belts on. It is that many people forget, or find belts (particularly shoulder straps) to be uncomfortable. So they don't wear them. When they wreck, they are more likely to be hurt or killed. 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.

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.

ScoobyDoo82 Posted at 3:19 pm on Nov. 3, 2008
Quote: from TomNSR at 2:22 pm on Nov. 3, 2008

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?


Buses drive you places, so I guess you could say thats already indirectly been invented.

IMPALA Posted at 1:54 pm on Nov. 3, 2008
:golf clap:

way to be an ignorant European regarding your fat comment.

It was a passive safety feature, for what it's worth.. much like airbags.

TomNsR Posted at 11:22 am on Nov. 3, 2008
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?

FTF Posted at 4:15 pm on Nov. 2, 2008
wut
IMPALA Posted at 3:56 pm on Nov. 2, 2008
rear vent windows..
FTF Posted at 12:06 pm on Nov. 2, 2008
Eh. Maybe its just my Tempo is so awesome nothing on it breaks.

Except the light knob and/or high beam stalk.

IMPALA Posted at 11:03 am on Nov. 2, 2008
my escort's belt motor was blown.
ScoobyDoo82 Posted at 10:30 am on Nov. 2, 2008
Quote: from Punkrocker 1992 at 12:43 am on Nov. 2, 2008

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.


I have heard of cases where the motors blow, but very rare.

mcodeath Posted at 3:18 am on Nov. 2, 2008
Quote: from Punkrocker 1992 at 11:43 pm on Nov. 1, 2008

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.


%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.

FTF Posted at 9:43 pm on Nov. 1, 2008
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.

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