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Frank’honda
Imagine the result if the airbag is eventually replaced..
I see they support my plan to improve driving skills by replacing airbags with sharp pieces of metal.
This can’t be legal . . .Stop auto abuse!
erm but their staples?
@Gonzie
“those” even X_X
The airbag will make a more efficient stapler, except that it will be your face.
I think that duct tape would do a much better job, and it would be safer when the airbags deploy
Frankenstein’s car!
Oh god. Driving without an airbag much? I do not want to get into this car. It’s bad enough knowing it has no airbags, but then there’s the part where its driver has had to use them…
The tag ‘probably not street legal’ should be added because the airbag has likely been deployed. Makes you wonder if the steering wheel is from a salvage yard or if the car is a cut-and-shut.
cars never used to have airbags, big deal.
The deal is getting stapled to the wheel when you kiss it with your teeth.
Those are stples, not stiches! And as for airbag, I think that is what explains the condition of the wheel in the first place, no?
I’m pretty sure that these people lived in the house we just bought. EVERYTHING was stapled together!
Where’s the tape over the airbag light?
This guy must of been a big air-head. A blowhard even!
Frankenwheel?
That’s what happens if you get angry and use the horn too much, kids.
Wouldn’t duct tape work better anyways?
The airbag isn’t going to deploy. He popped it with a staple.
there goes his face… in one way or another
Wow, an epic kludge AND an epic FAIL, all in one! (I’d hate to see how he jury rigged the front of the car)
“I said AUTO supply, not OFFICE supply.”
WIN
It’s a fancy whoopee cushion now. SCREEEECH * BANG * RAPPAPAPAPAP!
Feh…
* My first car had no airbags (or ABS, PAS, AC, power windows, power mirrors, opening rear windows…) and it wasn’t so much of a big deal. It had decent crumple zones at least, and these clever things called seat belts and inertia reels that were designed to stop you faceplanting the wheel. (Fun fact – airbags came about in order to give Darwin the finger, by allowing people too lazy/stupid to put on their seatbelts to survive in an entirely passive fashion). Was kind of worried by its lack of impact bars in the doors, however. I’m “only” 27…
* Airbag detonator units lose their effectiveness over time anyway (same as belt pre-tensioners). The one a car of the likely age of this one would be a bit weak by now.
* The older style ones were infamously easy to set off by bopping the right part of the front bumper, eg by giving it a hefty swing from a baseball bat. No major structural damage or actual crash going on, but it still triggered the airbag system. Some people would do it for a mindless prank… or, you could set them off by having a parking mishap, bashing a trashcan/weighty traffic cone, or even a severe pothole (the kind that also bursts a tyre). They’re somewhat more fail-safe these days – multiple sensors, only firing if there’s also a significant deceleration (or rearwards acceleration) detected, etc.
(my immediately previous car’s manual seemed quite proud of it’s airbags that “wouldn’t trigger” in the case of a sideways shunt)
also this might belong to the guy as-seen-on-youtube who pulled his car’s airbag, laid it out in the garden with some nuts on top, then waited for a hungry squirrel to come along before triggering it…. *bamf* pweeeeeeeee…….. splat.
SRS – Suddenly Released Staples
Feh. Did this before, but I used hot glue.
Car is still on the road, some 6 years later, still no airbags. Couldn’t see the point in it, since they cost more than the car was worth.
Safety first, heh…This is the ultimate “kill me ‘cuse I’m f…ing stupid” airbag system. Only available at the most stupid garages…ORDER IS NOW!!!!!:):):)
In his defense, he used the staples in his head for this project, so he wasn’t thinking straight…
ha, as if this car will ever see 150mph. why do they made the speedometer that high in the first place?
It’s alive, it’s aliiiive!!
When I get that man into bed, we won’t screw… We’ll ziptie.
It’s a Honda? Depending on the model, after 85mph, it’ll beg for mercy. Mine started begging at 65, but it was a pretty basic model.
I was always under the impression that the airbags released from the top or bottom. I should ask my ex (if he will still talk to me) since he was involved in some of the testing of the components. He might know. Seems to me as though if it came through the center there would be a chance for shards to break off during the filling process.
The bag didn’t neccesarily deploy, driver could have removed it so as not to have an explosive device go off in his face if he ever is in an accident.
Hehe, yeah, I suppose the type of person that would put sharp metal staples into their steering wheel might also see airbags as a dangerous “explosive device”. :¬P
If you look close, it says that it’s a srs airbag.
Remember, airbags are srs bsns.
Staples! That was easy.
Help! Somebody stole my airbag!!!
It could also be that this was a hasty repair for the car after the airbag was *stolen*, airbags are so expensive partly because the inner layer of the airbag is coated with gold to prevent deterioration over time. As stated above, replacements from the dealer are uber-expensive, so nick an airbag, sell it on ebay, make some poor schlub staple up his steering wheel until his insurance claim goes through.
Ah, I see you have the new Scarebag from Darwin Award Tuning. Excellent choice, good man, excellent choice!
Man, this is worth an applause.
He could use an amount of duct tape (that would definitely be less senseless than this), but he tried this completely new (even if dangerous, painful and potentially lethal) approach.
We live in a marvellous era, long life to the pioneers!
“…and as an added safety feature, in case of an accident, both surgical staples AND an airbag will deploy. Talk about safety! Now, just walk with me, and we’ll finish up that pesky paperwork…”
@ninjathrowingstars
Multiple reasons.
* Cheaper that way for mass production purposes. You only make one, two, maybe three speedos and probably one or two variants of the other instruments to go into a one-size-fits-all binnacle. One speedo covers your high performance models and goes to, say, 180. One goes in your budget models and possibly goes up to 110, 120 (and maybe has gear-change marks on it). The other splits the difference and covers everything in between. You also have one tach for petrol engines and one for diesel (and mayyyybe one for 8v, one for 16v/turbo, but marked redlines seem to be far less common these days when it’s easier to just lower the revlimiter a bit), a digital clock for the plush ones and an analogue one that fits in the tacho space (with the digital display space it was part of being covered by a subtle blank panel or logo) to make the cheap cars look less grotty.
* Possibly legal or regulatory purposes. I have a suspicion that, rather than the car’s actual speed (or that of the fastest one that shares the dial), the speedo has to cover everything it’s theoretically capable of, plus a little bit. IE what it’ll rev to in top gear if you were to go down a really big hill, or the wheels jumped off the ground/hit ice long enough for it to spin up. Presumably to cover you tuning it (without changing the gearbox, which may require changing the speedometer anyway on some marques), or finding that big hill/massive jump and taking it flat-out, without the speedo breaking from the needle being driven too far round. EG my first car had trouble breaking 90mph officially and in practice, even when given a 50-mile run up, but the dial read to 120 – because it would rev to 6500 on a 17.5mph/1000 gear (and I once found a hill that let me take it to an indicated 106). The more expensive ones with higher top gears (and in some cases higher rpms) had 140 and 160mph speedos, even though the fastest one still wasn’t officially capable of more than 115. Next one ran round to 150, as it would do 6000 and 25/1000, despite being out of puff at 105. Current one will do a touch over 120 (screaming like the god of pain and drinking like bacchus – only been up that high once for testing and once in a “must get home. now.” situation) and the dial reads to 160. Bit of an oddball, as there’s not a great deal of revs left at that point (I reckon it might do 130-135 on the limiter), but it’s presumably shared with the next model up whose gearing would allow it to pull a _little_ over 140 if you fired it from the top of Everest… Or maybe it’s something to do with the kilometres/miles conversion as it’s european (similar for japanese btw) and they’re going for the next convenient km mark instead.
* Or it just makes stupid people (describing an aaaaaaaawful lot of people who buy new rather than used – hence the popularity of most toyotas and hondas in the first place; drab, nasty cars in my experience! Even Suzuki makes better…) think that their shiny, hire-purchased pride and joy is a lot better than it is, so they’re more prepared to part with the folding, even though they’ll never take it anywhere close to even it’s REAL capability.
See, there’s always hidden layers to stuff, no matter how much you (or I) want to deride it.
haha so let me guess everytime you stapled it honked, right?!!! haha
@tahrey
Can you elaborate on that?
“Honda, the power of screams”
@tahrey:
My logic, not different from any others’:
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@brabus
I wish I knew what you said but I skipped it as cl>2.
“Coming out tonight?”
“Nah. I go totally bagged on the weekend.”
@tahrey
Wow, your post is so full of fail, I don’t know where to begin. First of all, it is COMPLETELY impossible to deploy an airbag by hitting the front of the car with a bat or other object. Older vehicles with external SRS sensors required one external and one internal sensor to be tripped in order to fire. You can DIRECTLY hit an external sensor hard enough, IF you hit the sensor itself (located under the hood) but that alone won’t do it. Airbags are designed to be deployed by impacts of the vehicle at speeds exceeding 10-15 MPH. You can’t even come close to that much force with a ball bat.
Older European cars used to come with warnings recommending replacement of the airbags after 10 years. This was because they didn’t know what would happen over time, and they wanted to be careful. Now, it is known that airbags actually don’t degrade significantly over time, and replacement is no longer recommended, even on the older cars where it used to be suggested.
Airbags also were NEVER intended to protect unbelted people- in fact, they are more likely to harm an unbelted person. This is why they are called SUPPLEMENTAL restraint systems- they SUPPLEMENT the primary restraints- the seat belts. Airbags are NOT effective on an unbelted person.
As for everyone saying that that must be illegal… it’s not. Airbags are required to be installed on new cars- but there’s no law saying they have to be put back if they deploy. A person can do whatever he wants to do with a car that he owns. (though some states may have stricter laws.)
And no, there’s no usable airbag in there, either.
And airbags aren’t stolen for the “gold” they are supposedly coated with. They have no precious metals. The airbag cover is part of the airbag itself. Airbags are stolen to replace deployed airbags- and would be useless without the cover and igniter assemblies, which are still in place on this vehicle. You might be thinking of catalytic converters- these contain precious metals.
As for cars’ speedometers… The car pictured is a 1998- 2002 Honda Accord. These are most definitely capable of 140 MPH if the speed limiter is disabled, otherwise, they’re electronically limited to around 125 MPH. Modern cars in the US are VASTLY more powerful than they were just 10 years ago, and those cars are more powerful than cars were 10 years before that. The average subcompact in 1985 had a 60 HP engine, and was capable of more than 90 MPH. That same car today will have upwards of 110 HP, and without speed limiters, would have NO trouble reaching speeds exceeding 120 or more.
My credentials: I am an auto mechanic, specializing in European cars. I’m not trying to be a know- it- all, but there’s a lot of misinformation here that needs to be cleaned up.
Airbags do *not* contain a layer of gold. Some of the electrical contacts on the controller circuitry are gold plated. You’d get as much or more gold from the contact pins on the CPU from an old computer.
Selling used airbags is illegal in the US. This is probably due to safety concerns, or maybe to kill the market for stolen airbags. There will always be a black market, but legitimate shops must buy new ones, which contributes to the high cost. I don’t know what the laws are in other countries though.
Who would even do that to a stinkin honda….
what is it with japanese cars and goddamn insurance…
Call me a geek but all I can think of is “PATCHWERK WANT TO PLAY!”
the mafia does alot of airbag theft…they are expensive…. “he’s a good earner” Tony S
Well the claymore on the steering wheel should keep him motivated to be a better driver.
No, the shrapnel goes inside the air bag!
All this talk of the dangers of driving without an airbag… Am I the only person left who still thinks of airbags as something new that only recent-model cars have? It seems like just yesterday they were still controversial and a lot of people didn’t want them.
Hey bob Did the airbag go off again? *looks at tiny little holes in his body*.
Just think of when there’s a fender-bender… airbag goes off, staples in brain… hooray.
seeing this at the lot, i think i’d ask to see the carfax
“condition-safety feature:removed”
Fexs says:
October 13, 2009 at 8:27 pm
Staples! That was easy.
~~~WIN~~~~
Serious Airbag is SRS!
Duct tape (that’s what I use) seems like a lot better choice than staples, or just leave those empty airbag cavities open for storing stuff. Anyway, new airbags cost hundreds of bucks, and why replace them on some POS hooptie?
yeah, what do you think is going to happen when the airbag goes off?
already did idiot!!!
Sad, Really Sad! (SRS)