Passenger Side Airbag

[islandtime]

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Always off when Rufie (the Pom) is with me. Don't really care any other time, as I'm usually alone. Let my husband drive it last Sunday when we went to a cookout, and the first thing he said when he started the car..."Turn your airbag on"...so I started talking!

[Johnny Gumballs]

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I only shut it off when the father of Debs kids is in town visiting us.

[K.P.]

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Buckle up for safety,
buckle up.
Buckle up for safety,
always buckle up.

Don't know the rest of the words to the jingle, but sing it to Judy for me...

Show the world you care
By the belt you wear,
Buckle up for safety when you're driving
Buckle up.



(jingle Queen...can't remember squat except useless stuff like this!)

[SR-71]

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When I was about 10 years old, my Dad went on a business trip, driving a company car. Part of his route took him on a winding, hilly road, but it was OK; my Dad was a careful driver, experienced at driving in winter conditions, plus the plows had already been through.

The car hit a patch of black ice and my Dad lost control. The car slid toward the guardrail, where the snow had been plowed and packed. The car went up. The car went over. The car rolled eight or nine times to the bottom of the embankment, coming to rest upside down in a shallow, half-frozen creek. My Dad, still conscious, but pretty shaken, managed to crawl out through the broken driver's-side window. He was wet. He was freezing. But he had no serious injuries. He made it back up to the road, where a kind trucker pulled over to help and call for assistance with his CB.

My Dad used to wear his seat belt only when the mood struck him. Fortunately, the mood struck him that day. Two large bruises were the worst of his injuries: one on his hip, and one across his shoulder area, where the seat belt had held him in place while the car rolled. Since then, my Dad always buckles up. So do I. Thank God for seat belts. Because of them, I didn't have to grow up without my Dad.

[Proboxfan]

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I always give my passenger the option of having the passenger side airbag either ON or OFF.

Does the passenger side seat have a side-impact airbag, and does turning off the passenger side dash airbag also disable the passenger side side-impact air bag?

[RustyFrye]

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My Dad used to wear his seat belt only when the mood struck him.

Based on the title of this thread I guess he also stopped driving while seated in the passenger seat?

[JerryP]

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Let me think???? Using these words together??

Airbag......Passenger Side
Airbag......Passenger Side
Airbag......Passenger Side



I am beginning to understand!!!!! Cooool!

[K.P.]

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Let me think???? Using these words together??

Airbag......Passenger Side
Airbag......Passenger Side
Airbag......Passenger Side



I am beginning to understand!!!!! Cooool!

Oh, Ha Ha Ha!!

(from your passenger side air bag!)



***although I noticed today while riding in a certain Inspiration Yellow, there is NO WAY to turn off the Driver side AIRBAG!

[GrayGator72]

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I busted a windshield out with my head about 30 years ago because I was not wearing a belt and before airbags.

A simple in town drive at 35MPH. Always, Always wear your belt and have the airbag on.

It that isn't enough

Click it or Ticket it.

[Proboxfan]

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People shouldn't be legislated into protecting themselves.

Forcing people to wear seatbelts while driving or wearing helmets while riding motorcycles may save some lives, but it also deprives people of choice.

Where are the legislators when it comes to kids riding ATVs when so many are getting rolled over on and killed?

I'll tell you where they are. They can't monitor and fine for an "offense" like that and generate revenue, so they don't care.

In my state, when the seatbelt law was passed in 1992, insurance companies promised a noticeable drop in rates if the law was passed. 13 years later, and NO discernable drop in rates because of it. Another SHAM perpetrated on the unsuspecting people gullible enough to believe.

[TBird02]

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Unfortunately some times things are reduced to the lowest common denominator. Some people need to be protected from their own stupidity. Unnecessary death and injury will affect auto and health insurance rates, and we all pay for that. I suspect that no one would be willing to sign a healthcare insurance waiver that voids health benefits if they were injured without wearing a belt or helmet. I never drive or ride without my seatbelt, but that's my choice regardless of the law.

[SR-71]

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- Watch out guys, the topic police have been visiting this thread. Airbag. You might get busted for not displaying the mandatory topic words and phrases. Passenger Side.



Kevin

[V8 Cat]

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I'm for laws that keep us reponsible drivers (cars and motorcycles) from having to pay for injuries incurred (or made more serious) because of lack of seatbelts (or helmets) when the injured party goes to the hospital emergency rooms with no health insurance and never pays the tab. We pick that tab up through increased health costs, insurance premiums, taxes (that support city & county hospitals). So I say only go without seatbelts, helmets etc. if you can financially take care of yourself without having to adversely affect the rest of us.

[DRWALL]

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Off when 3 yr. old grandson is riding with me

[rag2]

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There is a gov. reg coming soon that all U.S. cars must determine who is in the pass. seat. If a child under 100 lbs., then bag is di-activated, if a woman (or small man) of about 100 lbs. then a smaller deployment force is set, over a certain weight sets a full deployment (ouch). Chrysler/Benz is using 2 systems to weigh you, one is a bladder filled with medical silicone in the seat cushion that when you sit on it, it squeezes a pressure switch for your weight, the other is pressure monitors between the 4 corner seat mounts on the floor ( more reliable of the two). Also I learned how you can get engineering data readout like that weight on the cluster display. Not that anyone would want to tell their wife what they weigh everyday though.
Now a question for you engineering geeks...how are they going to determine a baby seat with toddler weight as seperate issues considering how tight down you secure an infant seat giving a false weight?